Basics of Social Welfare

1. Basics of Social Welfare What is the stigma associated with social welfare and why is there one?? SW associated with poverty and the receipt of $ This comes from the value placed on work and reciprocity (pensioners �+� TANF �-�) Explain these concepts work & reciprocity Relationship b/w politics and social welfare To be poor is disreputable enough but then to get $ is worseRelationship b/w politics and social welfare To be poor is disreputable enough but then to get $ is worse

2. Self-selection is that folks identify stigma with things of they are not a part.Self-selection is that folks identify stigma with things of they are not a part.

3. Definitional Problems Exclusiveness Inclusiveness Economic transfers outside the system Primary principle �price is driven by worth Welfare recipients pay less than fair price Examples????? Method is clear & unambigous Covers services to non-poor reducing stigma

4. Meet Basic Needs Addresses health & economic adequacy Satisfying standards of life and health Minimum level of social functioning What is essential??????

5. Functional Definition Interdependent units full range of responsibilities A society cannot survive if too many cannot function at this level, also Social system cannot endure if too many cultural patterns of inefficiences prevent interdependent functioning History has changed this and led to creation of social welfare

6. Key terms Social Structure how individuals achieve identity (status and role) > groups and organizations> institutions> society Social Institutions (Production-Distribution-Consumption; Population-Socialization;Social Integration;Mutual Support;Social Control/Order; Social Change) Family & kinship; Government; Economics; Religion; Education

7. Dependence, Interdependence, & the Social Welfare Institution 2 levels of functioning : individual performance & social institutions Interdependence versus dependence Industrialization brought deterioration in institutions and increase in members of high risk individuals (greater needs & less able to promote the kinds of changes needed)

8. Dependence/Opportunity High levels of dependence >repression Various methods of control Create limited alternatives versus holding folks responsible Two conceptions of social welfare Institutional-all of us need help at one point or other Residual �system of support when family & market do not meet needs Health care from residual to institutional, welfare moving back to residualHealth care from residual to institutional, welfare moving back to residual

9. Welfare State arguments Incoherent-all things to all people Economic prosperity renders this unnecessary Cost is a threat to the economy Squandering endless resources on �wrong people� with little impact Creates dependence which threatens freedom

10. Inevitable adjustment Current state is not a liberal initiative but a response to change In former rural agriculture society welfare was not needed but it is necessary in current system Rational response to modern problems of modernization

11. Welfare State revisited Programmatic welfare state that devotes portion of gnp, through taxation, to social problems /wo altering economy Redistributive welfare state has a focus on redistributing wealth & resources