Understanding social welfare : a search for social justice

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dolgoff, Ralph (Author), Feldstein, Donald (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Massachusetts : Pearson , c2013
Edition:9th ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Socioeconomic structure, human needs, and mutual responsibility
  • 2. Social values and social welfare
  • 3. Social values and social welfare: England from the middle ages onward
  • 4. Social values and social welfare: the American experience
  • 5. America and poverty: two paths: the American experience II
  • 6. Concepts for social welfare
  • 7. Examining a social welfare program within the context of social justice: structural components, alternative program characteristics, and evaluation
  • 8. The welfare society and its clients
  • 9. Current social welfare programs-economic security
  • 10. Social welfare programs: sustaining the quality of life
  • 11. Nonprofit and private social welfare
  • 12. Social work: the emergence of a profession
  • 13. Social work: functions, context, and issues
  • 14. Social trends affecting social welfare
  • 15. Toward the general welfare and social justice