INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK

Chapter One Worksheet

1. In your own words, state the goal of social welfare.

2. Distinguish between social welfare as an institution and as an academic discipline.

3. In your own words, define social work (p. 7).

4. In your own words, define human services.

5. In your own words, define the residual view of social welfare.

6. In your own words, define the institutional view of social welfare.

7. Which view (residual or institutional) best defines the historic approach to social
welfare in America?

8. In your own words, define the conservative view.

9. In your own words, define the liberal view.

10. Which view, conservative or liberal, best fits the residual view of social welfare?
11. In your own words, define the developmental view of social welfare.

12. List the three categories of relief recipients, according to the Elizabethan Poor Law:
a.
b.
c.

13. The ______________________ ethic emphasized ____________________, which is

the view that one is the master of ones own fate.
14. The ______________________ economic theory asserted that the economy and
society in general would best prosper if businesses and industries were permitted to
__________________________________________________.

15. Explain how social Darwinism affected the development of social welfare programs.

16. How did Lester Ward refute social Darwinism?

17. What was Herbert Hoovers attitude toward social welfare programs?

18. What effect did the depression have on the protestant ethic and individualism?

19. The two main programs established by the 1935 Social Security Act are:
a.
b.
20. Two types of social insurance are:
a.
b.
21. Four types of public assistance are:
a.
b.
c.
d.

22. The basic intent of the Social Security Act was to ____________________________
_____________________________________________________________.
23. What were some of the new programs established under Lyndon Johnsons Great
Society?

24. What were the three primary changes affecting social welfare which were
implemented under Ronald Reagans administration?
a.
b.
c.
25. What have been some of the long-term effects of the cutbacks in social welfare
programs during the Reagan-Bush era?

26. What is the devolution revolution?