
Forms of oppression and discrimination
To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:
- Describe different forms of oppression and discrimination.
- Describe three implications of the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.
- Analyze policies that advance social well-being from a strengths-based, empowerment, and ecological systems perspective.
Readings
From the Social Welfare: A History of American Response to Need text:( 8 edition 2012)
Read Chapter 9, “Social Welfare and the Information Society,” pages 300–344.
From the Social Work Speaks text: 2018
Read “Welfare Reform,” pages 337–340.
Conduct an Internet search on Google Scholar and find two articles on the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA).
Share a brief one-paragraph summary of each article.
How have these articles expanded your understanding of this act? Describe three implications of the passage of PRWORA. Specifically, how did this welfare reform affect other segments of society?
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