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Understanding social welfare / Ralph Dolgoff, Donald Feldstein.
LIBRA HV95 .D64 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dolgoff, Ralph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- United States.
- Social service--United States.
- Social service.
- United States--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 414 pages; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
- Summary:
- As social work advances into the new millennium, new knowledge and skills will be required. The pace of change will continue to accelerate. The principles and skills that you learn as a social work student will serve you in the future as a social work practitioner.
- This textbook is a valuable part of the learning process; it will help you to acquire the skills and knowledge you will need in an ever-changing global society. Your text will also help you to connect with the latest research and debates in the field; visit our accompanying website at www.abacon.com/socwk.swhome.html. There you will find additional information or weblinks that will help you make the best use of what you have learned.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Socio-Economic Structure, Human Needs, and Mutual Responsibility 1
- The Impact of Social and Economic Structures 2
- Defining Social Welfare and Social Work 4
- The American Myth of the Hero 5
- The Authors' Perspective 10
- Chapter 2 Social Values and Social Welfare 16
- Modern Views of Humanity 17
- Self-Actualization versus Irritation Response Theories 18
- Economics and Human Motivation 19
- An Overview of History 20
- Ancient Cultures 22
- Christianity 27
- Holy Poverty and Expectations of the Wealthy 29
- Eastern Cultures 30
- Summary: Evolving Values and Social Welfare 33
- Chapter 3 Social Values and Social Welfare: England From the Middle Ages Onward 37
- The Early Middle Ages 37
- The Middle Middle Ages 39
- The Late Middle Ages to Elizabethan Poor Laws 40
- Work and Religion 44
- The Poor Laws 48
- Speenhamland 51
- The Workhouse 53
- The Poor Law of 1834 54
- Principles of the Poor Laws 55
- Chapter 4 Social Values and Social Welfare: The American Experience I 61
- American Poor Law Mentality 61
- The Early Spanish Influence, the Mexicans, and Other Latinos 65
- Voluntary Mutual Aid Efforts 67
- Mutual Aid among African Americans 67
- The American Frontier: The Myth and Values 71
- Native Americans and U.S. History 73
- The Federal Role in Social Welfare 76
- The Freedmen's Bureau 77
- Veterans and a Suspension of the Ethic 79
- Social Darwinism 80
- The Coming of Social Insurance 81
- Society, Social Values, and Modern Views of Human Nature 82
- Chapter 5 America, Poverty, Two Paths: The American Experience II 88
- Three Discoveries of Poverty 88
- The War on Poverty 94
- The "Skirmish" against Poverty 96
- Families, Children, and Poverty 98
- The Poor Laws Today 106
- Human Nature and the American Dream 108
- Chapter 6 Concepts for Social Welfare 111
- What Is Social Welfare? 111
- Social Policy, Social Services, and Social Work 114
- Ideology, Social Policy, and Government Intervention 115
- The Importance of Fiscal and Monetary Policy 126
- An International Economy 128
- A Second Welfare System
- Corporate Welfare 129
- Chapter 7 Examining a Social Welfare Program: Structural Components, Alternative Program Characteristics, and Evaluation 136
- Structural Components 137
- Alternative Program Characteristics 142
- Evaluating the Program 153
- Chapter 8 The Welfare Society and Its Clients 160
- Who Is a Client of Social Welfare? 160
- What Is Poverty? 162
- A Description of the Poor 166
- Income and Wealth Inequality 172
- The Effect of Some Government Programs 174
- The Near-Poor and Expectations 176
- Other Views of Poverty 177
- Relative Inequality 178
- Strategies for Fighting Poverty 181
- Ideology Revisited 186
- Chapter 9 Current Social Welfare Programs
- Economic Security 191
- Social Insurance Programs 192
- Income Support Programs 214
- Chapter 10 Social Welfare Programs: Sustaining the Quality of Life 232
- Health Care Programs 239
- Nutrition Programs 250
- Low-Income Home Energy Assistance 255
- Housing 256
- Veterans' Benefits 259
- Employment Programs 263
- Personal Social Services 264
- Mental Health Services 271
- Corrections 273
- Chapter 11 Nonprofit and Private Social Welfare 279
- Early Patterns 279
- The Nonprofit Sector 280
- The Proprietary Private For-Profit Organization 282
- Services of the Nonprofit and Private Sectors 283
- Getting and Spending 283
- Private and Nonprofit Agencies as Social Welfare Programs 287
- A Point of View 290
- Leadership, Class, and Gender 291
- Private and Public Spheres 292
- Marketplace and the Nonmarket Domain 295
- Toward the Future 296
- Chapter 12 Social Work: The Emergence of a Profession 301
- The Workers of "Good Works" 302
- The Process of Professionalization 307
- A Brief History of Practice and Methods 308
- Development of the Professional Association 312
- Social Work with Groups 314
- Community Organization and Social Planning 316
- Toward a Unified Profession 318
- Chapter 13 Social Work: Functions, Context, and Issues 323
- The Purposes of Social Work 323
- The Professional within the Organizational Context 325
- The Professional within Complex Organizations 325
- Society, the Functions of Social Work, and Services for People 328
- The Two Tracks of Social Work: Cause and Function 329
- Generic-Specific Social Work 334
- Professionals and Volunteers 336
- Racism, Sexism, and a Pluralistic Society 338
- Chapter 14 Social Trends Affecting Social Welfare 343
- Growth, Demography, and Resources: International Perspectives 343
- Growth and Demography: The United States 347
- Productivity and the Service Economy 350
- A National Society 352
- Ethnicity and Pluralism 353
- Gender 355
- Gays and Lesbians 357
- The New Property 360
- Additional Societal Issues Affecting Social Welfare 361
- Chapter 15 Alternative Programs to Meet Social Welfare Needs 367
- Female Heads of Household, Children, and Poverty 368
- The Aging and Long-Term Home Health Care 373
- Immigration 378
- Persons with Disabilities 383
- Alternatives Facing the Practitioner 387
- Where We Are 391
- Two Scenarios 394
- Our Proposal 394.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 080133036X
- OCLC:
- 40744454
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