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Essay Instructions: Social Policy Analysis and Practice
Government Sector & U.S. Constitution
Advocacy and Organizing Worksheet

Student Name:

Instructions ? Use this worksheet to answer the following questions once you have read the article in Module 6. Save your file with your last name and Advocacy.doc then submit the worksheet via Assignments
Brooks, F., & Brown, E. A program evaluation of Los Angeles ACORN's welfare case advocacy. Journal of Human Behavior and the Social Environment . 2005 , Haworth Press, Binghamton , NY.

Answer the following questions:
a) Identify two major pieces of social work legislation that was passed between the New Deal Era and the War on Poverty then identify the strengths and weaknesses of the legislation.



b) Discuss the role that social worker's played prior to and after the legislation was passed.

Essay Instructions: Using the cocepts of proletarianization and professionalization, analyse the impact on teaching of the Charter and of the situation described in 'Trying to Teach' (emailing documents) and discuss what they signify about the political, economic and social environment within which teachers work.

Essay Instructions: Answers need to be 12-point font, double-spaced, with standard margins. There will be deductions for writing in the first person narrative form including plural forms (us, our, we, etc.)
Each questions needs to be discussed in four pages. Write a thesis statement to each question. Do not use quotes from the list of readings, discuss each question in an essay format.

1.What does the 'Partisan Mind' suggest about social work practice, social workers, and the Code of Ethics?
http://www.cswe.org/File.aspx?id=13780

http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

2.Are feminist perspectives relevant to social work practice? Why?
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/v017/17.2keating.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/meridians/v007/7.2ramirez.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/23/elisabeth-badinter-s-the-conflict-does-modern-motherhood-undermine-women.html

Council on Social Work Education, Educational Policy (EP) Core Competencies & Practice Behaviors

Apply Social Work values and ethical principles to guide professional practice.

Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts.

Engage Diversity and difference in practice

Recognize the extent to which structures and values may oppress, marginalize, and alienate, or create and enhance privilege and power.

Gain sufficient self-awareness to eliminate the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse groups.

View themselves as learners and engage those with whom they work as informants.

Advance human rights and social and economic justice
Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination

Advocate for and engage in practices that advance human rights and social and economic injustice.
Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment
Utilize conceptual frameworks and knowledge of major theoretical approaches to guide the processes of assessment, intervention, and evaluation

Critique and apply knowledge to understand person in the social, economic, and natural environment

Essay Instructions: Title: An Overview of CSR: What has led to CSR development and why should it be implemented by business. [Literature Review and Case Study]. Video case study:Delta oil's dirty business.Definition of CSR (Introduction)



A detailed description and framework:
? Definition of CSR (Introduction)
? A literature review of the core factors in the social environment including criticism of business and business?s response that have on aggregate led to the development of CSR. Arguments supporting/opposing CSR should also be discussed. (Main body of essay).
? Main body of essay: An examination of the company case viewed in the documentary film:
o In relation to the core factors in the social environment including business criticism and business response discussed above.
o Against the various responsibility levels of CSR. This examination should firstly point out whether a particular level of responsibility was reached and provide explanations as to why/why not the particular responsibility level was reached/not reached.
? Finally you should also recommend actions that the company should/could have followed [Conclusion](see report structure below).

You are expected to follow the following report structure:
? Table of Contents
? Introduction
? Literature Review and Analysis (discussing the pertinent theory and applying it to the case ? see ?Detailed Description? above)
? Conclusion (recommendation for actions that should/could be undertaken)
? Bibliography ? you must utilise the Harvard Reference System

Book: Business and Society; Authors:Ann K. Buchholtz, Archie B. Carroll; 8th edition