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| | The Welfare State |
 | | This has become identified, in practice, with the 'institutional' model of welfare: the key elements are social protection, and the provision of welfare services on the basis of right. | | | It has clearly beneficial effects on social welfare: the last 30-40 years have seen spectacular improvements in longevity, infant survival, access to basic amenities like water supplies and fuel, and the provision of services like health care and education. | | | In many "welfare states", social protection is not delivered by the state at all, but by a combination of independent, voluntary and government services. |
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http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/wstate.htm#US
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| | Social welfare - definition of Social welfare in Encyclopedia |
| | Those involved in the social welfare system are generally unable to control or influence their own circumstances, while those in the justice system are generally responsible for the situation they find themselves in. | | | In such countries, access to social welfare services is often considered a basic and inalienable right to those in need. | | | Assistance given to those in the justice system is more about allowing an individual to receive fair treatment rather than social welfare. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Social_welfare
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Welfare Special Report |
| | Social critics said welfare was responsible for a permanent underclass of people living off government checks because the incentives to go to work were so weak. | | | In another notable reversal, it is generally liberals who champion social engineering – and conservatives who scoff at the idea that government should try to change individual behavior. | | | By and large, those responsibilities are falling to welfare caseworkers – who in the past did little more than hand over checks. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/welfare.htm
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| | Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues |
| | Central to this strategy was a plan to convert welfare into a transitional system designed to provide short-term financial, educational, and social support for families in need of such assistance and minimum-wage jobs for families who exhausted their transitional support. | | | Further, both he and Sonenstein suggest that welfare is much less likely to affect sexual behavior than it is to affect the decision to have an abortion or to marry, once pregnant. | | | Thus, welfare reform will increase the need for affordable child care at the same time as the block grant mechanism is likely to reduce available child care subsidies. |
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http://www.urban.org/welfare/overview.htm
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| | Encyclopedia article on Social welfare function [EncycloZine] |
| | Alternatively, the social welfare function can be expressed as a function of other variables relevant to welfare, such as income or life expectancy. | | | The form of the social welfare function can be seen as expressing a statement of the objectives of a society. | | | Arrow proved that it is impossible to have a social welfare function that satisifies a set of given 'reasonable' criteria, in his so called impossibility theorm. |
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http://encyclozine.com/Social_welfare_function
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| | BCCLA Position Paper: Social assistance, 1964 |
| | But if social assistance programs are to remain at all (serving, as it were, the purpose of a safety net, which we may hope it will be necessary to use as seldom as possible), they must still be viewed as a means of accomplishing the same civilized purposes that sustain other types of welfare programs. | | | Social assistance is known by many synonyms public assistance, public welfare, relief, the dole, the welfare, and no doubt, others that have not come to our attention. | | | The B.C. Association of Social Workers earlier this year submitted a brief to th e provincial government in which a number of proposals were made for the resolution of the welfare crisis alluded to already. |
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http://www.bccla.org/positions/admin/64socialassistance.html
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| | Welfare state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some of this criticism concerns the idea that a welfare state makes citizens lazy and less inclined to work, a theory which some conservatives claim is proved by the current economic and social status of France. | | | There are three main interpretations of the idea of a welfare state: | | | Another criticism is that the welfare state often provides its dependents with a similar level of income to the minimum wage, encouraging benefit fraud and economic inactivity, especially common now in the UK and France. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state
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| | Welfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Welfare economics, in economics, associated with material benefit or preferred outcomes; see also social welfare function | | | Social welfare, in social policy, refers to the range of services intended to meet people's needs | | | Welfare, in general terms, refers simply to quality of life |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare
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| | Mark Rank |
| | Expertise: poverty, social welfare, social stratification, family, social policy, demography, research methodology | | | Rank's work centers on poverty, social welfare, economic inequality, and policy, including the use of welfare myths, class division and economic inequalities as political campaign issues. | | | Most Americans don't think they'll ever be faced with the question of how they will get their next meal, but a recent study co-authored by a social welfare expert at Washington University in St. Louis shows that at least 42 percent of the U.S. population will deal with food insecurity during their lifetime. |
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http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/458.html
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| | Social Solidarity versus Social Capital by Andy Blunden |
| | The undeniable truth that both market fundamentalism and the welfare state have equally exhausted their historical mission seems sufficient for the advocates of “social capital” to rest their case. | | | The value of the idea of “social capital” is that it sheds light on the non-economic factors which allow poor or marginalised communities to improve their situation irrespective of welfare payments or other measures of redistribution. | | | The problem with “social capital” is that it introduces the language, concepts and methods of economic science into the political-economy of poverty, whereas what needs to be done is to introduce the language, methods and concepts of political science, especially those of social movements, into the political-economy of poverty. |
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http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/social-solidarity-preface.htm
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| | apair.txt |
| | Animals which naturally live in communities usually have established social behaviour patterns which are part of their nature. | | | One theory of social evolution claims that human language evolved from grooming rituals which help social animals to enjoy each othersÕ company and so functio as a harmonious society. | | | Then as a general principle it seems that whenever we keep any social animal alone, we are depriving it of a whole range of experiences which it has evolved to enjoy. |
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http://www.rmca.org/Resources/apair.txt
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| | Social Security Department |
| | The social protection systems, or the European Welfare State, are only a part of national socio-Economic models, i.e the whole pattern of the production of national output, the sharing of work and the distribution of income among the members of the respective society. | | | It is claimed here that the US socio-economic model has developed in addition to direct social transfers a system of indirect social transfers using the labour market as an agent of income redistribution - or by reverse logic, that the European welfare states have triggered a suppression of that function of the labour market. | | | Since the comparison involves the performance of the national welfare states in their economic context, the analysis cannot be limited to outcome indicators of the social protection system itself. |
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http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/publ/dispp3.htm
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| | BUBL LINK: Social welfare |
| | Resource relating to the study of social policy, with information about welfare, political issues, social need, and associated services. | | | Subjects: addiction, child welfare, disability, homelessness, mental health links, social services, social welfare, social work | | | Subjects: animal rights, charity directories, health charities, humanitarian relief, social welfare |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/s/socialwelfare.htm
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| | Sameshield.Com - Policewomen in the News |
| | The policewoman needs to be a person of liberal education and she must have up-to-date knowledge of modern methods of social work and of social welfare theory. | | | She is not a "policeman" engaged primarily in detecting crime; she is a social worker engaged in the most difficult kind of public welfare work. | | | Social work has been in the past the stepsister of the professions rather than a respected member of the family group. |
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http://www.sameshield.com/press/sspress35.html
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| | I. Wallerstein, "SOCIAL CHANGE? Change is eternal. Nothingever changes." |
| | This had been largely mediated via the state structures, as social welfare programs. | | | Social scientists will not be ready to accept a basic reorientation of their view of social change without being first convinced that they will not thereby lose the raison d'être of social science. | | | Rather, all of social science is necessarily the study of social change. |
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http://fbc.binghamton.edu/iwportug.htm
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| | The Market's Social Welfare Function: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal |
| | On the face of it, it seems that the market's welfare function sucks, but the welfare function of the political process might suck even more. | | | I don't think that is an issue unless you want to try to quanitfy changes in people's welfare in terms of money or a numeraire good. | | | Actually, one problem with this whole exercise is that the utility functions are most likely ordinal and not cardinal. |
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http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/002449.html
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| | A Guide to Anti-Social Behaviour Orders and Acceptable Behaviour Contracts |
| | Social services need to ensure that they are taking the welfare of the community fully into account when making their decisions. | | | It is intended for use by practitioners people with a professional responsibility for tackling anti-social behaviour, whether they represent local authorities, the police, youth offending teams, registered social landlords, prosecutors, the judiciary, or any other agency which seeks to tackle the problem of anti-social behaviour. | | | Acceptable behaviour contracts are voluntary agreements made between people involved in anti-social behaviour and the local police, the housing department, the registered social landlord, or the perpetrator's school. |
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http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/asbos9.htm
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| | community organization @ the informal education homepage |
| | Social planning : is the method of community organization traditional to health and welfare councils although its scope and arena were enlarged in the 1960s to encompass city planners, urban renewal authorities and the large public bureaucracies. | | | Part one looks at social environments and social interaction - theories for community practice; the nature of social and community problems; and the concept of community in social work practice. | | | those phases of social organization which constitute a conscious effort on the part of a community to control its affairs democratically, and to secure the highest services from its specialists, organizations, agencies, and the institutions by means of recognized interrelations. |
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| | Social Housing of Primates |
| | With sociality so central to the very survival of primates (Bernstein 1991), Bramblett (1989) points out that the most stimulating, diverse and biologically important addition to the welfare of a captive primate is a social companion (cf. | | | The normal social adjustability by pair-housed macaque infants that were naturally raised by their mothers, as opposed to the relatively poor social adjustment of pair-housed infants that were artificially reared without mother contact, endorses natural rather than artificial rearing conditions for non-human primates. | | | The assumption that non-human primates have social needs (US Department of Agriculture 1991) is echoed by Novak and Suomi (1991) who stated that social interaction is crucial for normal development in most primate species, and that having access to one or more companions may be the most effective way to foster their psychological well-being (cf. |
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| | Social assistance brief 1/99 |
| | If it were to be extended to parents on social assistance, it could shield parents with children from eroding welfare benefits and provide more financial stability for those moving from assistance to employment. | | | Our social assistance workshops and other evidence indicates that at the moment policies and the rights of recipients are not clearly outlined or accessible; some social assistance policies are not only inconsistent, but they often appear to be unjust and unfair; and policies may unnecessarily penalize recipients and place individuals and families in jeopardy. | | | For example, deducting the child benefit from social assistance has been a source of some dissatisfaction and concern amongst some anti-poverty advocates because, they argue, one of the main goals of the NCB program was to address child poverty. |
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http://www.gov.ns.ca/staw/Socbrief.htm
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| | Clinical and Medical Social Work |
| | Introduction to the concepts of "social welfare" and "social policy." Topics include emphasis on the relationship between social policy and the delivery of social services. | | | Descriptions of present day social welfare programs in terms of the philosophy, legal base, program policy, and impact on both the target service group and the larger community of present day social welfare programs. | | | In depth study of the theories and principles of behavioral science and skill development in the methods of modifying and controlling behavior. |
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http://www.delmar.edu/catalog/descript/cmsw.html
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| | TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 20. Capitalism, Work, and Character. Eva Bertram and Kenneth Sharpe. |
| | In this view, social welfare programs are not only unnecessary; worse, they give the poor a free pass, encouraging the very dependence and lack of personal responsibility that stand in the way of character and success. | | | Many liberals also disdain the character debate because the right has so often used the issue to pillory the "immoral" behavior of certain groups (usually poor, usually minority) to marginalize them politically and control their behavior through harsh social policies. | | | The desire to behave as a responsible person does not make you personally responsible for the hand dealt you by the neighborhood, class, or social group into which you were born. |
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http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/20/bertram-e.html
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| | Homework Help--Social Issues--Animal Rights |
| | Includes information on medical progress due to animal research, animal welfare regulations, ethical issues, and alternatives to testing as well as public surveys, Frequently Asked Questions, and fact sheets. | | | Discusses alternatives to animal experiments as well as the Animal Welfare Act, and provides action and news alerts. | | | From the Foundation for Biomedical Research, an organization “dedicated to improving human and animal health by promoting…the humane and responsible use of animals in medical and scientific research.” |
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http://www.kcls.org/hh/animalrights.cfm
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| | Marketing social change |
| | Their solution to the ethical problem of social marketing is to define it as improving the welfare of individuals and society- in terms of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. | | | This is another approach to social change, in the same general area as social marketing and CFSC. | | | The principle of social mobilization (like Paulo Freire's concept of conscientization) is that the population are made aware of a problem, often through local media. |
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http://www.audiencedialogue.org/socmark.html
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| | Enrichment Resources for Laboratory Animals: Dogs and Dog Housing |
| | Descriptors: dogs, stimuli, animal behavior, social behavior, aggression, fear. | | | Descriptors: wolves, animal social behavior, social isolation, handling, infants (animal). | | | Regular human contact during the puppie s' socialization period (3-14 weeks) is particularly important to produce dogs that are relaxed with humans (Scott and Fuller 1965). |
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http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/enrich/dogs.htm
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| | Hong Kong cinema in the 1930s: docility, social hygiene, pleasure-seeking & the consolidation of the film industry |
| | The first may be termed the discourse of social hygiene, which assumes a top-down responsibility on the part of both colonial administrators and local cultural elites to uphold the spiritual and moral welfare of the ordinary person. | | | It is the human subject, through various social practices, which is the crucial component of this distinct sphere. | | | The Chinese activists' nationalistic emphasis on social hygiene and moral education therefore found its counterpart in the official policy discourses of the Hong Kong-British government. |
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http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1100/llfr11h.htm
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| | Anti-social behaviour |
| | Welfare benefits should not be concerned with social engineering or creating the dangerous distinction between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor. | | | Anti Social behaviour plans - "a recipe for punishing the poor" | | | SCSH welcomed the introduction of anti social behaviour orders which could be applied regardless of tenure or wealth. |
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http://www.scsh.co.uk/press/pr37.htm
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| | 2002 NAICS Definitions: 624 Social Assistance |
| | These establishments provide for the welfare of children in such areas as adoption and foster care, drug prevention, life skills training, and positive social development. | | | These establishments provide for the welfare of these of individuals in such areas as day care, nonmedical home care or homemaker services, social activities, group support, and companionship. | | | Industries in the Social Assistance subsector provide a wide variety of social assistance services directly to their clients. |
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http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics02/def/NDEF624.HTM
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| | SOSIG: Social Welfare |
| | Welfare Reform and the Management of Social Change: a Framework Five Project | | | European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research | | | You are here : Home > Social Welfare |
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| | Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) - Publications by Subject - Social Assistance |
| | This booklet is for people who, in the past, were on some form of social assistance, such as General Welfare, Family Benefits, Ontario Works, or Ontario Disability Support. | | | This booklet explains under what circumstances a person on social assistance is expected to try to get support payments from someone who is or was their spouse or same-sex partner, or who is the other parent of their children, and what they are expected to do. | | | This brochure outlines the process to follow when a person disagrees with decisions about their right to social assistance from Ontario Works or the Ontario Disability Support Program. |
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http://www.cleo.on.ca/english/pub/onpub/subject/social.htm
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