Concepts
The four levels of social policy responsbility
What is individual, family, voluntary/community sector, and the state?
The "ideological view that a society's economic institutions largely should be allowed to take care of themselves with minimal state involvement in lives of citizens"
What is neoliberalism?
In the social services, the process by which the recipient of service is demeaned, diminished or devalued, often resulting in guilt and shame over one's circumstances
What is stigma?
The two assumptions that underly the belief that the market is the best way to meet people's needs
What is: the assumption of exercising informed choice, and the assumption that social services are like other goods?
An economic and political system based on collective, common, or public ownership of the means of production
What is socialism?
An alternate name for neoliberal model used in mid-late 1900s
What is the residual model?
The four factors that make up one's ability to make informed choice
What is information, mobility, competence, and resources ?
What is precarious work?
Unpaid labour given in exchange for social assistance benefits
What is Workfare?
Four main reasons why the family may not be an option for social support for some people
What is unavailability, unwillingness, and incapability of the family, and reluctance of vulnerable person?
The determination of eligibility for government funding based on the applicant or family's resources, such as income, assets, and expenses
What is a means test?
An alternate name for the moderate view of social policy; the middle of the spectrum between neoliberalism and socialism
Four groups/demographics of people that the government often views as incapable of making informed choices
What are frail seniors, children, people with developmental/intellectual disabilities, and those with psychiatric histories?
E Pluribus Unum
"One of many"
From case study on p.101 about diversity research study from Putnam that led to more anti-immigration sentiments
Describe in one word, TWO critiques of neo-liberalism
What is inequality, unfair, immoral, monopolization, instability, commodification, alienation etc ?