Focuses on values and the historical impact of socio-economic structures--This text focuses on the impact of social structure on people’s lives, emphasizing the current concerns of diverse client populations and the search for social justice.
KEY TOPICS: Improve Critical Thinking — Challenges readers to make their own decisions as they encounter policies and programs with enhanced knowledge and analytic skills. Analysis of current issues requires students to think critically about historical influences. Engage Students — Presents the historical evolution of social welfare and focuses on issues, trends, and conflicts in the context of influential societal developments and values. Numerous original documents help to engage students and Contemporary and cutting-edge information on health care and LGBT rights keep readers interested.
MARKET: For those interested in learning about the impact of social structure on people's lives.
Focuses on values and the historical impact of socio-economic structures
Understanding Social Welfare: A Search for Social Justice is presented in an organized, comprehensive, and scholarly manner, including social policy concepts. It is accessible to students and helps them acquire the basic tools for understanding, analyzing, and evaluating social welfare policies and programs. This text focuses on the impact of social structure on people’s lives, emphasizing the current concerns of diverse client populations and the search for social justice. It places U.S. welfare in philosophical, political, economic, and international contexts, and includes the latest discussion of policy issues related to gay men and lesbians.
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