Understanding Social Welfare

by Dolgoff, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9780801317019
• ISBN10: 0801317010
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: ADDISON WESLEY LONGMAN INC

Summary

Understanding Social Welfare introduces readers to the issues, historical influences, trends, methods of operation, and unresolved conflicts of American social welfare. This well-organized, comprehensive, and scholarly book is accessible to social workers and helps them acquire the basic tools for understanding, analyzing, and evaluating social welfare policies and programs. The book focuses on the impact of social structure on people's lives, emphasizing the current concerns of a diverse client population, and incorporating the latest social welfare legislation. For those involved with social welfare and policy.

Table of Contents

Preface
Self-Reliance, Dependence, and Responsibility	p. 1
Social Values and Social Welfare	p. 19
Social Values and Social Welfare: England from the Middle Ages Onward	p. 41
Social Values and Social Welfare: The American Experience	p. 65
America, Poverty, Two Paths, and American Dreams	p. 91
Concepts for Social Welfare	p. 111
Examining A Social Welfare Program: Structural Components, Alternative Program Characteristics, and Evaluation	p. 131
The Welfare Society and Its Clients	p. 155
Current Social Welfare Programs - Economic Security	p. 187
Social Welfare Programs: Sustaining the Quality of Life	p. 233
Non-Profit and Private Social Welfare	p. 273
Social Work: The Emergence of a Profession	p. 295
Social Work: Functions, Context, and Issues	p. 317
Social Trends Affecting Social Welfare	p. 341
Alternative Programs to Meet Social Welfare Needs	p. 373
Appendix A: Sources of Information	p. 413
Index	p. 417
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