Social Work Policy Analysis
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Course Introduction
Social Work Policy Analysis equips students with the knowledge and skills to critically examine social policies and their impact on individuals, groups, and communities. The course explores frameworks for analyzing the development, implementation, and effectiveness of policies within diverse social, economic, and political contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding policy formulation processes, advocacy strategies, and the role of social workers in promoting social justice and equity. Through case studies and applied assignments, students learn to assess how policies address or perpetuate social issues, and develop recommendations grounded in ethical and evidence-based practice.
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Foundations of Social Policy Social Justice in Human Perspective 6th Edition by Amanda S. Barusch
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Chapter 1: Social Justice and Social Workers
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Q1) Human trafficking refers to which of the following?
A)Market-based exploitation of vulnerable individuals
B)People buying and selling illegal drugs worldwide
C)Buying and selling humans
D)None of these
Answer: A
Q2) John Stuart Mill argued that inequality is
A)the inevitable result of human differences.
B)useful for encouraging work effort.
C)only just when it is in society's interest.
D)a clear sign of society's injustice.
Answer: C
Q3) Rawls argued that inequality is
A)not necessarily a sign of an unjust society.
B)just, if it improves the well-being of the disadvantaged.
C)an indication that government intervention is called for.
D)a good way to ensure that hard work is rewarded.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Governments Role
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Q1) The Executive Branch creates policy when it
A)provides benefits.
B)taxes income.
C)spends appropriations.
D)issues regulations.
Answer: D
Q2) During the latter half of the 20th century, what sources of federal tax revenues changed?
A)Individual income taxes became a higher proportion of federal revenues.
B)Corporate taxes became a smaller proportion of federal revenues.
C)The proportion of federal revenues drawn from payroll taxes increased.
D)Both corporate taxes became a smaller proportion of federal revenues and theproportion of federal revenues drawn from payroll taxes increased.
Answer: D
Q3) Health care spending is the largest category in the U.S. budget.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Governance in the U.S. is shared among three levels of government. List these.
Answer: Federal, State, Local
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Chapter 3: Policy Analysis and Policy Practice
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Q1) An advocate who relies on careful and accurate analysis is using A)logos.
B)pathos.
C)ethos.
D)all of these.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the steps of Prince Policy Appraisal?
A)Identify the players who are likely to affect the decision.
B)Determine a position for each player.
C)Estimate the power that each player brings to the issue.
D)Calculate a budget for the issue when applicable.
Answer: D
Q3) How does Ezell define advocacy?
Answer: " purposive efforts to change specific existing or proposed policies or practices on behalf of or with a specific client or group of clients."
Q4) The three frameworks for conducting policy analysis are rational, ethos, and critical.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Social Security Act
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Q1) Under current law, individuals who are disabled by virtue of alcohol addiction
A)may receive Social Security disability benefits through a representative payee.
B)must be in treatment in order to receive Social Security Disability benefits.
C)may not receive Social Security disability benefits.
D)may receive Social Security disability benefits through a representative payee and must be in treatment in order to receive Social Security Disability benefits.
Q2) All workers who pay Social Security taxes are eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In Social Security policy debates, the term "privatization" refers to
A)investing Social Security funds in the private capital market.
B)allowing individuals to decide whether or not they will participate in the program.
C)selecting private investors to manage the investment of reserves in the Social Security trust funds.
D)requiring individuals to maintain private retirement savings accounts
Q4) List three means-tested programs that are authorized by the Social Security Act.
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Chapter 5: Poverty and Inequality
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Q1) Most of America's poor live in rural settings.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A person who believed the "pauperization" argument would be strongly opposed to
A)giving cash relief to the poor.
B)civil rights legislation.
C)Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.
D)providing education or training to end poverty.
Q3) <i>In Regulating the Poor,</i> Piven and Cloward argued
A)that expanded relief efforts created dependency.
B)that public relief efforts supported an oppressive economic structure.
C)that poverty and addiction were closely related.
D)all of these.
Q4) The Section 8 housing program
A)provides loans for the construction of low-income housing.
B)provides rent vouchers for low-income families.
C)offers housing assistance to the aged, blind, or disabled.
D)was eliminated in the 1996 welfare reform legislation.
Q5) Define and give an example of relative poverty measure.
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Chapter 6: Health
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Q1) Describe the alternatives for long-term care and some of the issues in access and financing.
Q2) Recent decades have seen two attempts to expand Medicare benefits. List the year and name for each one.
Q3) Abram de Swaan identified three conditions that encourage collective solutions to individual problems. Apply his conditions to the problem of HIV/AIDS infection, and speculate on the likelihood of a collective response.
Q4) The Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act would
A)establish government-run long-term care insurance.
B)require that all Americans over age 60 purchase long-term care insurance.
C)reform community-based care programs funded under Medicaid.
D)require that people with disabilities be given the opportunity to live in the community.
Q5) Proponents of the "Sanitary Movement" in England advocated
A)government oversight of urban sanitation measures.
B)tracking vital statistics.
C)government regulation of waste disposal.
D)all of these.
Q6) What is social justice and why is health care a social justice issue?
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Chapter 7: Mental Illness
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Q1) The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill was established in 1979 to advocate for
A)reduced use of institutional confinement.
B)patients' rights and reduction of stigma.
C)deinstitutionalization.
D)federal government aid.
Q2) According to the American Psychiatric Association, approximately ____ of homeless Americans suffer from severe and persistent mental illness.
A)5%
B)33%
C)90%
D)75%
Q3) ___________ has been called "the apostle to the insane."
A)Jane Addams
B)Dorothea Dix
C)Linda Carter
D)Robert Burton
Q4) Describe the role of social workers in the Mental Hygiene Movement and the impact of that role on the profession.
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Chapter 8: Disability
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Q1) In the case of <i>Carolyn C. Cleveland v. Policy Management Systems Corp</i>., the Supreme Court held that
A)corrective measures made the individual ineligible for ADA protections.
B)receipt of DI did not necessarily make an individual ineligible for ADA protections.
C)an individual's disability that allowed for performance of household chores did not confer eligibility for ADA protections.
D)inappropriate institutionalization of a person with disabilities constitutes discrimination.
Q2) During the 19th century in the U.S., people with disabilities were
A)cared for at home by family members.
B)labeled idiots and lunatics and placed in institutions.
C)provided special education.
D)forced to work at menial labor with no pay.
Q3) U.S. disability policies reflect the different definitions of disability.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss how the different definitions of disability have affected policy changes or development.
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Chapter 9: Crime and Criminal Justice
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Q1) Incarceration was incorporated into state laws, after the American Revolution, for what reasons?
Q2) The 2005 Supreme Court ruling in Roper v. Simmons, ended what type of sentencingpractice for juveniles?
A)Death sentences
B)Life in prison
C)Mandatory sentences for Schedule 1 drug convictions
D)Automatic probation for youth 10 and under
Q3) Restorative justice seeks to repair the relationships between
A)victims, witnesses, and offenders.
B)the police, victims, and offenders
C)offenders, the community, and victims.
D)juvenile offenders, the offenders' parents, and the community.
Q4) America's correctional system includes jails specifically for Native American people.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did the ruling in the 1967 <i>Gault</i> case change juvenile justice procedures?
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Chapter 10: People of Color
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Q1) The <i>Plessy v. Ferguson</i> decision
A)supported the system of debt peonage in the South.
B)prohibited interracial marriage.
C)established the principle of "separate but equal."
D)supported the voting rights of African Americans.
Q2) Under the Naturalization Act of 1790, American Indians were declared A)savages.
B)unable to own land.
C)domestic foreigners.
D)a protected group.
Q3) Park and Gordon both argued that racism will inevitably disappear in the process of A)acceptance.
B)assimilation.
C)education.
D)economic growth.
Q4) Wilson argued that racism evolved to provide justification for oppressive economic arrangements.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Individuals
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Q1) As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in <i>Romer v. Evans</i>
A)discrimination against homosexuals is now illegal.
B)states may not forbid cities from passing laws that outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
C)employers cannot discriminate against homosexuals in hiring and firing practices.
D)discrimination against homosexuals is now illegal and establishes that states may not forbid cities from passing laws that outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Q2) The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 expanded federal hate crime coverage to include crimes motivated by perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Colorado's Amendment Two was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. A)True
B)False
Q4) The term transgendered describes a person's sexual orientation. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Children
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Q1) In 1918, based on research by the Children's Bureau, Jeanette Rankin introduced the Sheppard-Towner Bill. The bill called for the federal government to:
A)offer grants-in-aid to states.
B)provide subsidized child care.
C)establish education funds.
D)do none of these.
Q2) During the 19th century, there were no laws in the U.S. to protect children from physical abuse.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Massachusetts passed the first compulsory attendance law, requiring that children between the ages of 8 and 14 attend school for _______ each year.
A)24 weeks
B)12 weeks
C)15 weeks
D)36 weeks
Q4) Present one argument in favor and one against the use of school vouchers.
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Chapter 13: Women
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Q1) The 1981 Supreme Court ruling in <i>Rostker v. Goldberg</i> held that A)restrictions on women's military service constituted discrimination.
B)it was constitutional to register men, but not women, for the draft.
C)women should be excluded from combat roles that place them in harm's way.
D)women should be permitted to serve as pilots in the navy and air force.
Q2) How have provisions for child custody changed in the U.S. since the 19th century? Please (a) explain these changes or (b) discuss their possible impact on divorce negotiations.
Q3) Define the practice of "gender rating" by health insurance companies and present two arguments: one in support of, and one in opposition to this practice.
Q4) The Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act calls for an "equitable division" of marital assets. This means a woman who has not worked during the marriage usually receives _______ of the assets accumulated during the marriage.
A)half
B)one-third
C)one-fourth
D)some
Q5) Give an argument that could be used to oppose prescription equity legislation.
Q6) Discuss the impact of race on prosecution of rape in the United States.
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Chapter 14: Older Adults
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Q1) For Europeans in Colonial America being elderly automatically conferred high social status and respect.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ was the largest source of income for the elderly in 2004.
A)Asset income
B)Pension income
C)Earnings
D)OASDI
Q3) The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (MCCA) addressed the problem of "spousal impoverishment."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Without Social Security, approximately _____ of the nation's elderly would have incomes below the poverty threshold.
A)one-quarter
B)half
C)one-third
D)one-tenth
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Chapter 15: Working Americans
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Q1) Describe two pieces of civil rights legislation that passed during the 1960s.
Q2) List two social trends that set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Q3) The EITC is administered by the Department of Labor.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Flexible spending accounts
A)provide child care subsidies for low-income, working women.
B)allow employees to pay their child care expenses with pre-tax dollars.
C)offer tax benefits to employers who establish on-site child care.
D)do all of these.
Q5) In which type of occupation were Asian Americans "over-represented"?
A)Management and professional
B)Production and transportation
C)Natural resources, construction, and maintenance
D)Service occupations
Q6) During the 20th century, inequality increased in the U.S. but declined throughout the rest of the world.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Conclusion
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Q1) Within the UN, the council that focuses on social development, the status of women, crime prevention, drug trafficking, and environmental protection is known as
A)the General Assembly.
B)the Trusteeship Council.
C)the Economic and Social Council.
D)the Council on Social Development.
Q2) The permanent members of the UN Security Council are
A)China, the Russian Federation, France, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. B)France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the U.S.
C)the Russian Federation, China, Japan, France, and the U.S.
D)all members of the World Bank.
Q3) The European Union
A)has become a significant global player.
B)includes 27 member nations.
C)may act as a counterbalance to the political power of the United States.
D)all of these.
Q4) Explain the roles and functions of social policy and the free market in welfare capitalism.
Q5) Discuss the impact of globalization on the world's poor.
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