Transcript Chapter 14 - Emer Dean Broadbent
The Impact of Social Welfare Policy
Chapter 14
How does social policy play a role?
It protects our civil and human rights
RACISM
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Policies Promoting
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Policies Opposing
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Jim Crow Laws Apartheid
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 Affirmative Action
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ETHNOCENTRISM
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Policies Promoting
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Policies Opposing
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Constitutional equality
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Policies on early land ownership Nazi Germany Bosnia Native American history
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SEXISM
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Policies Promoting
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Women denied the right to vote
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Women not allowed to own land
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Contraception illegal
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Policies Opposing Women’s suffrage, 1920 Equal Rights Amendment
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HOMOPHOBIA
Policies Promoting
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Anti-sodomy laws Policies Opposing Equal rights ordinances
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Parenting and foster care laws preventing gays from co-parenting, adopting or fostering
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ENDA – Employment non discrimination act
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CLASSISM
Policies Promoting
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Political access based on ability to pay
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Nobility through inheritance
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Property tax funding of education
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Policies Opposing Constitutional equality
How does social policy change?
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Executive Orders – presidential edicts
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Influence of advocacy groups – lobbying and voting
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Campaigns – public forums for discussion of social welfare issues
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Limitations of Social Welfare Policy
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Social welfare policies can regulate and govern actions, but cannot change values and beliefs
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Most are results of compromises and thus are incremental and do not please everyone
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Social Justice
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The profession of social work mandates that we promote social justice in our practice
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Social welfare policies can change conditions that perpetuate disparity and exclusion
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Policy Practice
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Policy practice is using our knowledge and how policies are made to take an active role in influencing the outcome of the process
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Participation in the political system Voting Lobbying/advocacy Organizing
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