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Social Policy 
The activities and principles of a society that includes plans and programs in education, heath care, crime, and corrections, economic security and social welfare. 
 
 
 
Social Workers require knowledge of 
Social policy to fulfill their roles as social work professionals 
 
 
 
A Major Mission of Social Work 
Is to engage in social and political action, to help people meet their basic needs 
 
 
 
Social Workers are urged to 
Promote policies that safe guard the rights of and co...
Task-centered model major tenets 
1. Aimed at reducing problems in living 
within a brief, time-limited period 
2. Clients' identification of priority concerns 
and the collaborative relationship 
 
 
 
Task-centered model tasks 
1. Assess client readiness for change 
2. Brainstorm alternative tasks 
3. Establish a reward or incentive 
4. Identify time frame 
 
 
 
Task-centered model uses 
•Improves school performance, modifies behavior in 
residential facilities, and reduces sibling conflic...
Values 
• Ideas about what we believe is preferable or ideal 
• Standards to define good or bad 
• General guidance for behavior 
 
 
 
Ethics 
• Related to what we consider correct or right 
• Generate standards of behavior 
• "Values in action" 
 
 
 
Microethics 
• Guides direct practice 
 
 
 
Macroethics 
• Guides organizations and direct policy 
 
 
 
Standards 
• A requirement of moral conduct; rule used as basis for judgment 
 
 
 
Service 
•SW Value 
• Principle:...
invisible vs. visible identities 
invisible ex. gay/straight 
visible ex. gender, race 
 
 
 
The Isms 
racism, elitism/classism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, handicapism 
 
 
 
Herbert Spencer 
popularized social darwinism 
•Survival of the fittest 
•Believed that helping lower class interfered with the natural process of selection in which society improves over time 
 
 
 
William Graham Sumner 
Sumner popularized social Darwinism in the U.S. 
•Combined Spencer's thoughts, laissez-fair...
Values 
Ideas about what we believe is preferable or ideal 
Standards to define good or bad 
General guidance for behavior 
A set of values becomes a value system 
 
 
 
Ethics 
Related to what we consider correct or right 
Generate standards of behavior 
"Values in action" 
 
 
 
Microethics 
guides direct practice 
 
 
 
macroethics 
guides organizations and social policy 
 
 
 
standards 
A requirement of moral conduct; rule used as basis for judgment 
 
 
 
Foundation of social work values...
Ore Reading 6: "Media Magic": Mantsios 
-Unline other cultural and socializing institutions, ownership and control of the mass media is highly concentrated. 
 
-The US is the most highly stratified society in the industrialized world. 
 
-Media ignores the poor 
 
-*"The poor are an eyesore"* 
 
 
 
Ore 20: The Return of "Separate but Equal": Kahlenberg 
-"Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" 
 
-More than 70% of black children now attend mostly minority schools ...
According to article #6, Media Magic, the poor are _____________. 
Eyesore 
 
 
 
T or F: Media seeks to have its audience identify with the poor. 
False 
 
 
 
T or F: The news media inverts reality so that those who are working class and middle class learn to fear, resent, and blame those below, rather than those above them in the class structure. 
True 
 
 
 
T or F: In article #20, The Return of "Separate but Equal", poor people of color are especially likely to wind up in schools filled w...
reciprocal interaction 
Two-way interaction between a person and the external world: the person acts upon and responds to the external world, and the quality of those actions affects the external world's reactions (and vice versa) 
 
 
 
Assessment 
Gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing information to provide a concise picture of the client and his or her needs and strengths 
 
 
 
Secondary or Host Settings 
A setting in which social work is not the only or not the primary profession, as when...
Reformed perspective of diversity and inequality 
 
 
 
Three Levels of Social Life: 
(Social) Structure, Culture, (Human) Agency 
 
 
 
Examples/Definitions of Each: 
1 - (Social) Structure: SHAPES OPPORTUNITIES External factors outside of one's control that shape the lives of individuals 
ex: disasters, war, poverty, societal change 
 
2 - Culture: (medium level): The ENTIRE way of life of a group of people that acts as a LENS through which one views the world - passed from one generation to ...
Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap 
Meizhu Lui 
-racial wealth gap has nothing to do with individual behaviors or cultural deficits, gov policies have transferred wealth from nonwhites to whites 
-federal policies created the basis for the current racial wealth divide 
-Native Americans-US took land and natural resources and gave it to white individuals 
-African Americans-wealth created from the unpaid labor of blacks, the use of violence to stop black wealth creation 
-Latinos-trade and imm...