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SOCIAL WORK 120

SOCIAL WORK 120. Valerie Southard Section 1- Spring ’11 Week3 2/14/11. Individualism. Related to the value of democratic egalitarianism Self-reliance Need for assistance is seen as being weak. Issues of Discrimination. Classism and Poverty

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SOCIAL WORK 120

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  1. SOCIAL WORK 120 Valerie Southard Section 1- Spring ’11 Week3 2/14/11

  2. Individualism • Related to the value of democratic egalitarianism • Self-reliance • Need for assistance is seen as being weak

  3. Issues of Discrimination • Classism and Poverty • Classism – A bias based on social or economic class or the belief that people from certain social or economic classes are superior to others • Poverty - social definition of relative differences in resources

  4. Income Disparity in America Between 1979 and 2007: • The top 1 percent’s share of the nation’s total after-tax household income more than doubled, from 7.5 percent to 17.1 percent. • The share of income going to the middle three-fifths (or 60 percent) of households shrank from 51.1 percent to 43.5 percent. • The share going to the bottom fifth of households declined from 6.8 percent to 4.9 percent. • The share going to the bottom four-fifths (80 percent) of the population declined from 58 percent to 48 percent.

  5. Income Disparity in America Top 1 Percent's Share of After-Tax Income More Than Doubled Between 1979 and 2007

  6. Figure 1: Net worth and financial wealth distribution in the U.S. in 2007

  7. Institutional Discrimination Institutional Racism Institutional Sexism Institutional Ageism Institutional Heterosexism Institutional Otherism 8

  8. Multiple Choice Question Social welfare in any society has which two major purposes: ________________ • social treatment and social justice • social justice and social cause • social treatment and social control • social justice and social control  

  9. Multiple Choice Question These are considered to be the bases for social altruism. • Judaeo-Christian charity values • White Privilege values • The New Puritism values •   The "American Ideal" values

  10. True or False The Protestant work ethic is the moral basis for American capitalism. • True •  False

  11. True or False The poor is a homogeneous group. • True • False

  12. Seeing the cultural imposition of European values in America as suppressing and denying the cultural integrity of people of color is: a)A Eurocentric perspective b) An Afrocentric perspective c) An Intersectional paradigm d) A Residual perspective

  13. An institutional perspective of social welfare services would advocate that services be provided on an emergency basis with an expectation that the recipient stop using the services as soon as possible. • True • False

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