SOC 804 - Social Policy

Credits: 3
Focuses on the development of social policy, first and foremost; on the history and development of the social welfare system in the United States with particular attention to the concepts used to discuss and explain social welfare institutions’ policies and programs; on the mechanisms and structures to deliver services; and on the factors that have tended to constrain or facilitate the attainment of social justice. Development of social welfare policy is traced within the context of the social and political economy of the period to gain an understanding of how political, economic, and social ideologies have shaped attitudes about social policy.