Early Childhood Enrichment Program

What is social welfare?

What is social justice?

Reflect on your own values and beliefs about the role of economics, government, and the relationship between social problems and social welfare (policy) in the United States. In a short essay address the following items:

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Provide a description of the social problem, identifying who is impacted (i.e., the population), specifically how they are impacted, and who are the significant proponents/opponents of the issue.

Next, review the issue/social problem from the viewpoint of two different political ideologies, for example: social liberal, social democrat, neoliberal or neoconservative.

Describe your own economic and political “philosophy,”, especially in relation to the social issue discussed in your paper.

Explain how your own values and beliefs resemble and/or differ from the viewpoints described.

Explain the ecological factors and your individual experiences that have influenced the development of your own economic and political “philosophy.” Incorporate those sensitizing events in your life that have either changed your views or reinforced them on the topic of social welfare, poverty, the role of government, etc.

What stance has social work historically taken on the social welfare issue chosen? Based on the SW Code of Ethics, what political philosophies seem most consistent with our professional values.

What area of contradictions do you see between the values our professions espouses and the translation of those values into practice? Include a brief description of the direction our field should ideally be moving in, based on our core values.