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Policy Ch 1-5
Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Macropractice has been called | Wholesale SW practice, Working to effect social change, dealing with the CAUSE of a social problem |
| Which of the following statements help emphasis on the macro, individual treatment aspects of sw? | the individual is the most immediate target for change, conservative nature of US society, |
| The authors describe the policy based profession as being comprised of the following except: | The practice system |
| traditional ways of defining professions such as medicine is called | market based model |
| Flexner said sw was lacking in | educationally communicable technique and individual responsibilty |
| The thesis that asserts that professionals lose power and control when they work in organizations is called | prolertarianization |
| social welfare policy is revenant to the day to day activities of sw | true |
| from the very beginning, providers of social services have been concerned with gaining recognition as a profession | true |
| Settlement house work has always been a respected part of the sw curriculum | false |
| Professional authority or autonomy is based on educational and state licensing credentials | true |
| The crucial issue is the development of a profession is the responsibility for the management of a social problem | True |
| Social welfare policy is a subcategory of | social policy |
| policy means | priniciples, guidelines or procedures that serve the purpose of maximizing uniformity in decision making |
| aspect of a persons life that ruins his/her identity | stigma |
| refers to anything the gov't does or doesn't do that affects the quality of life | social welfare policy |
| EPAS of the CSWE understands the knowledge base of policy practice to incclude | knowledge of policy formation, analysis, implementation and evaluation, identification of social policy at the local, state and federal level that impacts well-being service delivery, assessing how social welfare and economic policies impact the delivery |
| social welfare policy used in the sw curriculum refers nearly exclusively to | government |
| four basic policy practice skills | analytic skills, political skills, interactional skills and value clarifying skills |
| contemporary roles of for-profit organizations in so welfare delivery | they r becoming increasingly important in the social welfare enterprise |
| evolving role of public an private sectors in the delivery of social welfare svs | majority of funds for the social services is public |
| which sectors provide the most microlevel policies | public and private non profit |
| administrative level of policy | mezzolevel |
| broad laws, regulations, guidelines providing basic framework for the provision of services and beneifeits | macro level of policy |
| Actual Service to clients | micro practice |
| term policy | rather loose and imprecise term for which there is no generally accepted definition in the academic literature |
| sw practictioner exercises a high degree of discretion in the provision of social services, | macro level of practice |
| policy is defined | statements of what ought to happen, purposive course of action by ppl dealing with a prob, pattern of action resolving conflicting claims/provides incentives for cooperation |
| activities included under the term social policy but not social welfare | libraries, parks, recreation |
| role of gov't in social welfare nNOT true | gov't gladly took over responsibility for social welfare |
| example of macro level policy | title XX of the social security act |
| Mezzo level policy is | administrative policy that organizations generate to direct and regularize their operations. |
| political scientist michael lipsky refers to social workers as "street level bureaucrats" because | their individual actions add up to agency behavior |
| The term social welfare policy sometimes refers to broad social philosophy, sometimes to the narrowest administrative role | false |
| SW policy is only concerned with the actions of the govt | false |
| Policy means principles, guidelines or procedures that serve the purpose of maximizing uniformity in decision making | true |
| SW policy serves the purpose of maximizing the uniformity in decision making regarding the problem of dependency in our society | true |
| In academic depth focusing on the duty of policy, sw policy refers nearly exclusively to the activities of the govt | true |
| from most to least sophisticated, correctly order the 4 major dimensions | academic/applied, social planning/agency planning, journalistic/practitioner, citizen analyst |
| description of academic social science research and applied policy research | doctoral level, published in accessible sources, rigorously researched |
| practitioner policy analysis | policy research is tangential to their primary professional rol |
| four types of descriptive policy analysis | content, choice, comparative and historical |
| universal allocation of social welfare benefits | the creation of a right to the benefit |
| Selective allocation | Need based |
| which type of benefit offers the greatest degree of self determination for the client | cash benefits |
| Pulblic welfare benefits and SSI r examples of | categorical public asst programs |
| Contracting Out | process in which a state public welfare dept pays a private organization to provide child welfare services |
| true of organizational accountability for social welfare services | public agencies r accountable to the general public, private, nonprofit r accountable to their BOD, Private, for profit r accountable to their clients |
| approact ot social elfare in the US | mixed public, voluntary/for-profit |
| commercialization in social welfare refers to | clients paying for services |
| logical evaluation, policys internal rigor and consistency is assessed by looking at | internal consistency of policy multi goals, consistency between policys goals and the means of achieving goals, diff between intended/unintended consequences |
| two parts of quantitative evaluation | effectiveness (outcome) and efficiency (cost effe) evaluations |
| cross national analysis is | comparative analysis |
| westinghouse/ohio univ eval of head start program | example of quantitative evaluation |
| Policy analysis is disciplined application of intellect to the study of collective responses to public and social welfare problems | true |
| typical sw practititioner has sufficicient training to make use of the research literature produced by policy analysis professionals | true*************** |
| the provision of social welfare benefits t individuals based on group membership is an example of a universalism | false |
| there r no ethical implications of the selection of the type of benefits to be distributed in a social welfare program | false |
| the most common form of comparative analysis involves comparison of client outcomes between tow or more social welfare agencies | true |
| an understanding of the outcome of previous policies | h helps us evaluate present proposals and claims for success***** |
| why is understanding of history helpful in understand the current policies | it gives some sense of how and why particular programs and approaches developed |
| berkowitz study of disability policies did not recommend | increase cash assistance for people with a disability |
| best historical policy analysis relies upon | primary and secondary data sources |
| one of the most important tasks in historical analysis is | the formulation of the hypotheses or guiding questions |
| important questions for historical policy analyst to ask of the sources DO NOT INCLUDE | does this document support my view************ |
| a critical first step in policy analysis is to specify the _________ of the policy you intend to analyze | boundaries |
| because policies have vague and overlapping boundaries that can easily shift over the course of an analysis, a policy analyst must | carefully specify them and constantly be aware of the need to maintain focus |
| sequence of steps in social/economic analysis | boundaries, problem, facts, theories, values, goals, hypothesis, economics |
| rational choice assumes that ppl | r purposive and goal oriented, have hierarchically ordered preferences, make rational cost/benefit calculations |
| ____________ constitutes what is probably the most important dimension for understanding social welfare policy | values |
| in the US, freedom understood as freedom from excessive and arbitrary external restraint and has resulted in | tendency to think of rights rather then of duties, suspicion o established authority, distrust of govt |
| Most Social welfare policies r based on some version of | the rational choice perspective of human behavior |
| Legislation to resolve racism, sexism, and other prejudices is best explained by | conflict of values |
| value consistent with providing help for the poor | humanitarian mores |
| questions central to resource allocation and scarcity | do policy measures we support work? how much benefit is obtained by a given expenditure? r resources divided fairly? |
| economic analysis of social welfare policy cannot | explain the behavior of one individual at a specific point in time |
| desired state of affairs that is hoped to be achieved by the policy | policy goals |
| stated goals r called ____________ and unstated goals r called ____________ | manifest and latent |
| american individualism is the broadest terms, means | impatience with restraints upon economic activity |
| ___________________ looks at questions of output, income, inflation and unemployment | macroeconomic analysis |
| social welfare policies r hypothetical solutions to perceived social problems | true |
| most social welfare policies r value free | false |
| the opportunity cost of a policy consists of all the outcomes or benefits that must be sacrificed if that particular policy is adopted rather than an alternative policy | true |
| behind every hypothesis is a theory that may be partially or totally incorrect | true |
| a policy is often a response to more than one problem | true |
| The most significant reform to the US welfare system was referred to as: | the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Act ****** |
| Social work responded to Abraham Flexner's critique of the social work profession (1915) by: | Focusing on social casework, Rejecting social legislation and settlement house work as part of the social work curriculum, Organizing the American Association of Professional Schools of Social Work. *************** |
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