Ch14 Social Policy And Culturally Grounded Social Exam Prep

Chapter 14: Social Policy and Culturally Grounded Social Work

Test Bank

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 1

1) Social welfare has had no critics and has done nothing but good for the United States.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 2

2) Distributive justice is the unfair distribution of benefits and burdens.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 3

3) The American with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government' programs and services.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 4

4) People in the United States have universal and equal access to quality health care regardless of who they are and where they live.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 5

5) Empowerment is

a. building muscle strength

b. building economic strength

c. being in control of one’s destiny

d. losing all control

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 6

6) The acronym TANF stands for

a. Total Assimilation to Nuclear Families

b. Temporary Aid to New Families

c. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families

d. Temporary Aid to Needy Families

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 7

7) Historically, social work in the United States has made an effort to connect clients with social services through

a. responding to their needs with social policy development

b. social policy change

c. clients’ relationships with larger systems

d. all of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 8

8) Distributive justice is deeply rooted in

a. policy analysis

b. conducted by social workers

c. follows a social justice goal

d. all of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 9

9) Public opposition to social welfare relates in part to which misconception(s):

a. Recipients would rather sit at home than work

b. Recipients are undeserving of these benefits

c. They belong predominantly to ethnic minorities

d. All of the above

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 10

10) How does the concept of distributive justice influences social work?

Feedback:Distributive justice: aims at ensuring that members of society have access to reasonable economic resources, education, social services, and other resources based on the ethical principles of equity and solidarity among the least privileged. It is the fair distribution of benefits and burdens. The mechanisms and tools provided by procedural justice help achieve it. It not only refers to economic goods, but also to the fair allocation of socially produced goods like opportunity, power and self-respect. In order to correct these inequities and address the lack of distributive justice, the government has intervened over the years in different ways, with varying degrees of success. Social work through its interventions at the micro, mezzo and macro levels supports a distributive justice agenda.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 11

11) According to the text, what role does social welfare play in the culturally grounded approach to social work?

Feedback:Social welfare: the word welfare is usually associated with the poor. In the United States, people often associate social welfare with a payment in-kind or in cash to a person who needs support because of age, disability, poverty, or mental illness. The social policy literature describes entitlements as programs where these types of transactions between the state and people and families take place. Social Security and Medicare are entitlement programs. The misconception that the people who get welfare would rather sit at home than work and that they are undeserving of the benefits they are receiving feed public opposition to social welfare. From a distributive justice perspective, it could be argued –for example- that if children born to undocumented immigrants have no right to education or health care, they will grow-up to be uneducated and in poor health—a hardship not only for them but for society as a whole.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 12

12) From a distributive justice and social welfare perspective, what are the possible arguments for and against affirmative action?

Feedback:Chapter 3 introduced affirmative action and chapter 14 revisits the debate. One argument against affirmative action is that it undermines merit-based hiring and promotion practices. A pro is that it might actually overcome practices that so they do not exclude women and ethnic minorities. The employment affirmative action policies have come under much scrutiny as well as affirmative action surrounding college acceptance. Two famous court cases surrounding affirmative action and equal rights are Plessey v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. Plessey v. Ferguson (1896) was the Supreme Court decision that sanctioned the segregation of public facilities, including schools, by establishing the “separate but equal” doctrine. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was the Supreme Court decision ruling that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional. Affirmative Action is not a quota system but instead it makes sure that every qualified candidate -regardless of his or her identity or background- has an equal opportunity to get a job or to enroll in a university.