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Pimping the Welfare System
| Author | : Kerry C. Woodward |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0739168827 |
Pimping the System is an ethnographic study of two welfare offices that empowered welfare-reliant women by providing dominant economic, social, and cultural capital in ways that acknowledged and respected the types of capital participants already possessed. It highlights ways ...
Pimping the Welfare System
| Author | : Kerry C. Woodward |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2013-03-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0739168835 |
Based on ethnographic research in Contra Costa County, California (CCC), Pimping the Welfare System highlights a welfare program implemented after welfare reform that differed in significant ways from the predominant work first approach implemented by most welfare programs. The book argues that by imparting dominant economic, social, and cultural capital, CCC’s welfare program empowered participants and improved their quality of life and life chances. Successfully transmitting these types of capital, however, was dependent upon the discourses, practices, and pedagogy deployed by welfare workers—as well as the policies, practices, and resources of the welfare program. In particular, CCC’s welfare workers encouraged the acquisition and use of dominant capital (that which is desired by the labor market) by acknowledging and respecting the various types of capital welfare participants already had, and by encouraging participants to make strategic choices about deploying different types of capital. This book calls into question monolithic understandings of economic, social, and cultural capital and encourages a new conceptualization of capital that resists framing poor women as fundamentally “lacking.” In addition, it points to ways welfare administrators and welfare workers can develop more empowering programs even within the confines of federal, state, and local regulations.
The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice
| Author | : Dennis Saleebey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Social service |
| ISBN | : 9780205011544 |
A conceptual and practical presentation of the strengths perspective in social work. Part of the Advancing Core Competencies Series, a unique series that helps students taking advanced social work courses apply CSWE's core competencies and practice behaviours examples to specialised fields of practice. The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice, 6th edition, presents both conceptual and practical elements of the strengths perspective - from learning about and practicing the strengths perspective to using the strengths perspective with older adults, the chronically ill, and substance abusers. Many of the chapters address recent events -from the tragic shooting in Tucson to the uprisings in the Middle East. Each chapter begins with a section from an expert in the field. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience--for you and your students. Here's how: Improve Critical Thinking - Each chapter contains four critical thinking questions and two short essay questions that require the reader to apply key concepts. Engage Students - Extensive case examples keep students interested and help them see a connection between theory and practice. Explore Current Issues - Three new chapters have been added to reflect the most current knowledge in the field. Apply CSWE Core Competencies - The text integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice tests to assess student understanding and development of competencies and practice behaviours.
Beyond the workfare state
| Author | : Carpenter, Mick |
| Publisher | : Policy Press |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2007-12-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1847423124 |
Beyond the Workfare State explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and 'welfare-to-work' policies. It draws extensively on new research from the SEQUAL Project, undertaken for the European Social Fund, which investigated seven dimensions of discrimination in a labour market that is theoretically 'open to all'. The book provides an overall analysis of policy shifts and presents a wide and distinctive range of illustrative studies that give voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups. Chapters deal with obstacles to labour-market access around each of the following themes: gender and class; disability; race and ethnicity; geographical exclusion; sexual orientation; the problems of old and young people; and refugees. The authors draw attention to localised examples of promising practice, but also connect these to a broader 'human rights' agenda, linking them to changing legislative and governance frameworks. Its scope covers the whole of Great Britain and it shows how devolution in Scotland and Wales, and at the regional level in England, is creating new possibilities for mainstreaming good practice in this key area. The book will be of great interest to academics and students in social policy and related fields. It will also be valuable for professionals, policy makers and practitioners in the regeneration, community development and anti-discrimination fields, particularly in the UK but also in Europe and beyond.
A Safety Net That Works
| Author | : Robert Doar |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2017-02-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0844750069 |
This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area’s successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our means-tested programs do many things well, but some adjustments to each could make the system much more effective. This book provides policymakers with a broad overview of the issues at hand in each program and how to address them.
Beyond the Impasse
| Author | : Frans J Schuurman |
| Publisher | : Zed Books |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781856492102 |
Development theory in the past decade has met with increasingly heavy criticism. Dependency theories, as well as modes of production and world-system approaches, have come to be considered as internally inconsistent and inadequate for explaining the increasing diversity and unevenness of the Third World. This book confronts the theoretical impasse which many feel has been reached. Development scholars from various disciplines review recent changes in research priorities, procedures and orientations, and detect the emergence of new and diverse lines of theoretical development in the field. In particular, they deal with the important meta-theoretical, political, cultural and ethical questions that have come to the fore.
Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare
| Author | : Charles Zastrow |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 646 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Public welfare |
| ISBN | : 9780534608231 |
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
| Author | : Gunilla Dahlberg |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2007-01-24 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113411351X |
This book challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management.
Ethics and Values in Social Work
| Author | : Allan Edward Barsky |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 795 |
| Release | : 2019-02-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0190678135 |
Social work ethics provide practitioners with guidance on how to promote social work values such as respect, social justice, human relationships, service, competence, and integrity. Students entering the profession need to develop a real-world understanding of how to apply these values in practice while also managing the dilemmas that arise when social workers, clients, and others encounter conflicting values and ethical obligations. Ethics and Values in Social Work offers a comprehensive set of teaching and learning materials to help students develop the knowledge, self-awareness, and critical thinking skills required to handle values and ethical issues in all levels of practice--individual, family, group, organization, community, and social policy. BSW and MSW students will particularly appreciate how complex ethical obligations and theories have been translated into plain language. Additionally, the comprehensive set of case examples and exercises provides realistic scenarios to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills across a range of practice situations.
