Problems in American Democracy Part 42

11. Outline the new ideals which recently have begun to influence the treatment of the dependent.

12. What is the nature of social service?

13. Discuss specialization in social service.

14. Why is coordination a necessary step when social service agencies have become highly specialized?

15. What may be said as to the character of the neighborhood of the future?

REQUIRED READINGS

1. Williamson, _Readings in American Democracy_, chapter xxiv.

Or all of the following:

2. Devine, _Misery and its Causes_, chapter v.

3. Devine, _Principles of Relief_, chapter ii.

4. Guitteau, _Government and Politics in the United States_, chapter xiv.

5. Warner, _American Charities_, revised edition, chapters iii and xxii.

QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS

1. Why is it difficult to cla.s.sify the causes of poverty? (Devine, Misery and its Causes_, pages 167-169.)

2. What are the objective causes of dependency? (Warner, page 41.)

3. What are the subjective causes of dependency? (Warner, page 42).

4. What is the Charity Organization Society? (Warner, page 450.)

5. Why did the Charity Organization Society arise? (Warner, page 451.)

6. Where did the first society of this type arise? (Warner, page 451.)

7. Discuss the methods of the Charity Organization Society. (Warner, page 458.)

8. What is the nature of the machinery employed by the Charity Organization Society? (Warner, page 458.)

9. What are the essentials of a sound relief policy? (Devine, _Principles of Relief_, page 13.)

10. Under what circ.u.mstances should charitable aid be refused?

(Devine, _Principles of Relief_, page 21.)

11. What is meant by the term "medical charities"? (Guitteau, page 154.)

12. What is the great aim of social service? (Devine, _Misery and its Causes_, page 235.)

TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

I

1. Make a study of your neighborhood with regard to some or all of the following points: (a) Increase in population (b) Changes in the racial type of the population (c) Changes in the occupational tendencies of the population (d) Changes in the spirit of neighborliness (e) Changes in the administration of relief to dependents.

2. Study the causes of dependency in your community with regard to the influence of economic, social, personal and political factors. (For this information, interview local social workers.)

3. Study an actual charity case, and make a diagram or sketch showing the number of factors involved.

4. Make a visit to an almshouse (sometimes called the poorhouse), and report to the cla.s.s upon conditions there.

5. List and cla.s.sify the types of inst.i.tutions which care for dependents in your state.

6. The extent to which inst.i.tutions for the dependent have been coordinated in your state.

7. Cla.s.sify the agencies which are performing some type of professional social service in your community.

8. Interview a local social worker with regard to his or her ideals of social service. (Compare the result with the ideals set forth in Section 284 of this chapter.)

II

9. The personal causes of degeneration. (Warner, _American Charities_, chapter iv.)

10. The social causes of degeneration. (Warner, _American Charities_, chapter vi.)

11. Desertion. (Devine, _Principles of Relief_, chapter xi.)

12. Dependent children. (Devine, _Principles of Relief_, chapter ix; Warner, _American Charities_, chapter xii.)

13. Relief in the home. (Devine, _Principles of Relief_, chapter vi.)

14. Relief in disasters. (Devine, _Principles of Relief_, part iv.)

15. Beggars and impostors. (Conyngton, _How to Help_, chapter ix.)

16. Volunteer work in charitable relief. (Devine, _The Practice of Charity_, chapter vi.)

17. The social settlement. (Conyngton, _How to Help_, chapter xxvi.)

18. The insane and the feeble-minded. (Warner, _American Charities_, chapters xiv and xv.)

19. Medical charities. (Cabot, _Social Work_; Henderson, _Introduction to the Study of the Dependent, Defective and Delinquent Cla.s.ses_, part ii, chapter viii.)

20. Organization of charity in England. (Henderson, _Introduction to the Study of the Dependent_, etc., chapter iv.)