Understanding Social Welfare: A Search for Social Justice, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (14 July 2021) © 2022

  • Ralph Dolgoff University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Donald Feldstein Council of Jewish Federations
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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 I
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

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