Social Welfare Institutions – Flashcards
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Civil Rights
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Fairness in relationships between people; especially as they relate to social and economic resources.
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Dependent / Dependency
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Relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
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Devolution of Responsibility
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Relinquishing federal policy roles to states and local governments
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Deinstitutionalization
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To release (a mentally or physically handicapped person) from a hospital, asylum, home, or other institution with the intention of providing treatment, support, or rehabilitation primarily through community resources under the supervision of health-care professionals or facilities
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Human Rights
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Fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere, as the rights of individuals to liberty, justice, rights to speak, etc. Universal rights one has, just by being alive. These are ideals.
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Institutions
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Things, places, customs accepted over time as having value over time. We value it generation to generation.
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Incrementalism
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The policy process is decision making through small or incremental moves on particular problems rather than through comprehensive reform program (you keep building on the same policies).
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Mutual Aid
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The most important sector. Family, friends, neighbors giving help
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Paradox
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A person, situation or action that seems to have contradictory or inconsistent qualities. A paradox is created by tension between the two poles.
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3 Key Paradoxes
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Social welfare: Both benevolent and a means of control Dependency: Caused by the individual and the environment Land of Freedom and Opportunity: People are not free and are denied opportunities
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Policy
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Guiding principals or courses of action adopted and pursued by societies and their governments as well as by various groups and individuals- "guides to action"
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Redistributive Policy
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Intended to readjust the allocation of wealth, property rights or some other value among classes or racial groups in society (resources from one group; redistributed to others through donations and taxes).
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Distributive Policy
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Policies and programs aimed at promoting activities that are thought to be desirable and beneficial to all.
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Competitive regulatory
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Limits the goods and services to only one or a few designated deliverers (ex: utilities, Time Warner Cable, etc).
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Protective Regulatory
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Designed to protect the problem by setting the conditions under which activities occur (protecting the problems from getting bigger; affirmative action, child abuse, etc).
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Policy: Routine Formulation
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A repetitive, essentially changeless process of reformulation similar proposals within an issue area that is well established (we take what we have and tinker with it-it's repetitive).
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Policy: Creative Formulation
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Treating each problem with an essential unprecedented proposal; one that represents a break with the past (we create something new).
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Policy: Analogous Formulation
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Treating a new problem by relying on what was done in developing proposals for similar problems in the past (borrowing from other and tinkering with it).
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Politics
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The science or art of political government.
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Power
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The capacity to control societal resources, to exercise institutional authority, to make decisions which affect society as a whole or to influence those who can make decisions that affect society as a whole. or (Emerson) It would appear that the power to control or influence the other resides in control over the things he values. or (Van Dyke) Power is the process in the acquisition and exercise be elite groups of individual or groups over others (reverse the process take your power back!)
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Privatization
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Relinquishing public policy roles to for-profit corporations and private markets.
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Public Assistance
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Government aid to the poor, disabled, or aged or to dependent children, as financial assistance or food stamps. Payment given to individuals by government agencies on the basis of need
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Welfare State
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A country that uses a portion of its Gross Domestic Product to help meet the economic and social needs of its people.
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Semi-welfare state
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Michael Katz-"we are a semi-welfare state"- interdependent upon each other. (Mutual Aid, Public, Private (non-profit), Proprietary (for-profit)- -Decentralized -Mixture of public and private -Programs show a variation in implementation -Shows a division between public assistance and social insurance
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Social Contract
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The formal and informal rules and understandings that guide the relationships between people that "allow for a civilized community" (Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau) or "Establish a mutually beneficial principal of justice as a foundation for regulating all right, duties, power and wealth" (John Rawls 1971).
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Social Control
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The use of legal means to control the actions of people-"the haves keeping the have-nots down."
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Social Justice
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Fairness in relationships between people, especially as they relate to social and economic resources (Beverly & McSwain).
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Social Insurance
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Social security, national insurance, government insurance providing coverage for the unemployed, the injured, the old, etc: usually financed by contributions from employers and employees, as well as general government revenue
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Social Services
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The non-monetary help given to people.
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Social Welfare
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Broad Definition (DiNitto): Anything society [government] chooses to do or not to do that affects the quality of life of the people. Precise Definition (Day): The social institution that provides society's sum total of goods and services to either enhance social and economic well being of society's members-altruistic, humanitarian, benevolent or Ensure their conformity to current societal norms, standards and ideologies-punitive, social controlling, authoritarian
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Social Welfare History
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The story of dependent people and how we as a society have understood and dealt with their needs and our collective needs. The measures society has taken to prevent problems, protect the vulnerable, defend, punish, mollify, etc. Those measures that survive become part of the social welfare institution.
