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IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS 2.) FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Chapter 1: Socioeconomic Structure, Human Needs, and Mutual Responsibility Chapter 2: Social Values and Social Welfare   Chapter 3: Social Values and Social Welfare: England from the Middle Ages Onward   Chapter 4: Social Values and Social Welfare: The American Experience I   Chapter 5: America and Poverty: Two Paths: The American Experience II   Chapter 6: Concepts for Social Welfare   Chapter 7: Examining a Social Welfare Program within the Context of Social Justice: Structural Components, Alternative Program Characteristics, and Evaluation   Chapter 8: The Welfare Society and Its Clients   Chapter 9: Current Social Welfare Programs—Economic Security Chapter 10: Social Welfare Programs: Sustaining the Quality of Life   Chapter 11: Nonprofit and Private Social Welfare   Chapter 12: Social Work: The Emergence of a Profession   Chapter 13: Social Work: Functions, Context, and Issues   Chapter 14: Social Trends Affecting Social Welfare Chapter 15: Toward the General Welfare and Social Justice       FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Chapter 1: Socioeconomic Structure, Human Needs, and Mutual Responsibility   Overview   The Impact of Social and Economic Structures   Cascading Effects Defining Social Welfare and Social Work   The American Myth of the Hero   Balancing Individual and Societal Responsibilities   Human Rights, Social Justice, Social Work, and Social Welfare   Equality of Opportunity The Authors’ Perspective   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 2: Social Values and Social Welfare   Overview   Modern Views of Humanity   Self-Actualization versus Irritation Response Theories   Economics and Human Motivation   An Overview of History   Ancient Cultures   Early Christianity   Holy Poverty and Expectations of the Wealthy   Eastern Cultures   Summary   Questions for Consideration MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 3: Social Values and Social Welfare: England from the Middle Ages Onward  Overview   The Early Middle Ages   The Middle Middle Ages   The Late Middle Ages to Elizabethan Poor Laws   Work and Religion   The Poor Laws   The Poor Law Compilation of 1601   Speenhamland   The Workhouse   The Poor Law of 1834   Principles of the Poor Laws   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 4: Social Values and Social Welfare: The American Experience I Overview   American Poor Law Mentality   Settlements, Labor, and Imported “Poor Laws”   The Early Spanish Influence, the Mexicans, and Other Hispanics   Voluntary Mutual Aid Efforts   Voluntary and Public Responsibilities   The American Frontier: The Myth and Values   Mutual Aid among Immigrant Groups   Rugged Individualism and/or Cooperation?   American Indians and U.S. History   The Federal Role in Social Welfare   The Freedmen’s Bureau   Veterans and a Suspension of the Ethic   City, Town, and County: A Local Institution Social Darwinism   The Coming of Social Insurance   Society, Social Values, and Modern Views of Human Nature   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 5: America and Poverty: Two Paths: The American Experience II   Overview   Three Discoveries of Poverty The War on Poverty   The “Skirmish” against Poverty   Families, Children, and Poverty   The Paths Forward   Human Nature and the American Dream   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 6: Concepts for Social Welfare   Overview   What Is Social Welfare?   Social Policy, Social Services, and Social Work   Ideology, Social Policy, and Government Intervention   The Federal and Pluralist System   The Economic Sphere   The Importance of Fiscal and Monetary Policy   A Tarnished Business Sector?   A Second Welfare System—Corporate and Individual Welfare   Globalization and Social Justice   The Bush Administration   International and National Background Features and the Search for the Dream   Summary   Questions for Consideration MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 7: Examining a Social Welfare Program within the Context of Social Justice: Structural Components, Alternative Program Characteristics, and Evaluation   Overview   Structural Components   Alternative Program Characteristics   Evaluating the Program   Testing for Social Justice   Views and Proponents   The Social Work Clinical Practice Sphere and Social Justice   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 8: The Welfare Society and Its Clients   Overview   Who Is a Client of Social Welfare?   What Is Poverty?   A Description of the Poor   Other Views of Poverty   Ideology Revisited   The Second Bush Administration   The Obama Administration Ideology Once Again   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 9: Current Social Welfare Programs—Economic Security   Overview   Social Insurance Programs   Social Security (OASDI)   Unemployment Insurance   Temporary Disability Insurance   Workers’ Compensation   Income Support Programs   Temporary Assistance for Needy Families   Supplemental Security Income   General Assistance   Earned Income Tax Credit   Socioeconomic Asset Development   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 10: Social Welfare Programs: Sustaining the Quality of Life   Overview   Managed Care: A Radical Change   Health Care Programs   The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”)  Nutrition Programs   Low-Income Home Energy Assistance   Housing   Veterans’ Benefits   Employment Programs   Personal Social Services   Mental Health Services   Corrections   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 11: Nonprofit and Private Social Welfare   Overview   Early Patterns   The Nonprofit Sector   The Proprietary Private For-Profit Organization   Services of the Nonprofit and Private Sectors   Getting and Spending   Privatization   Private and Nonprofit Agencies as Social Welfare Programs   Finances, Recessions, Budgets, and Mergers Leadership, Class, and Gender   Private and Public Spheres   The Marketplace and the Nonmarket Domain   Family and Friends   Toward the Future Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 12: Social Work: The Emergence of a Profession   Overview   The Workers of “Good Works”   The Process of Professionalization   A Brief History of Practice and Methods   Development of the Professional Association   Social Work with Groups   Community Organization and Social Planning   Toward a Unified Profession   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 13: Social Work: Functions, Context, and Issues     Overview   The Purposes of Social Work   The Professional within Complex Organizations   Society, the Functions of Social Work, and Services for People   The Two Tracks of Social Work: Cause and Function   Generic–Specific Social Work   2010 Social Work Congress Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 14: Social Trends Affecting Social Welfare Overview   National Society   Food Security The United States: A Changing Population, a Selected Social Welfare Agenda, and Social Justice   Summary   Questions for Consideration   MySearchLab Connections Notes     Chapter 15: Toward the General Welfare and Social Justice   Overview   Children and Poverty Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Elder Abuse What Are the Major Types of Elder Abuse? What is Known About Interventions? Social Policy Implications for Social Work Globalization, Privatization, Socially Just Services, and the Future of Social Welfare   The Roles of Social Work Issues for Social Workers A Second Welfare System: Corporate and Taxpayer Welfare and Social Justice The Choices Before Us: Social Justice and the Baby-Boomer Generation   Technology and Social Action   Where We Are   Coda: Two Views of the Future   Summary   Questions for Consideration     MySearchLab Connections Notes     APPENDIX: Sources of Information and Timeline Index 

About the Author :
Ralph Dolgoff is a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore where he also served as Dean. Previously he served as acting dean and associate dean at the Adelphi University School of Social Work, and as Senior Program Specialist at the Council on Social Work Education. Dr. Dolgoff is the author of Introduction to Supervisory Practice in the Human Services and con-author (with Donna Harrington and Frank Loewenberg) of Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice (9th edition), two editions of which have been translated into Korean and Chinese. He has published widely on social and welfare services, ethics, social policy, and social work education. Dr. Donald Feldstein is the former executive vice-president of the Council of Jewish federations. He had a distinguished career in Jewish Communal Services and in social work education. He is the author of numerous monographs and articles in the previously mentioned fields.