Summary: Socwk 300 Canadian Social Policy

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• four types of human needs

  • felt needs
  • expressed needs (communicated to others)
  • normative needs (determined by standardized benchmarks)
  • comparative needs (social comparison determines)

• Macarov's five categories of people with special needs

  1. the incapable (children)
  2. the unprepared (illiterates, new immigrants)
  3. disaster victims 
  4. the unconforming (anti-social)
  5. the unmotivated 

• four ways to measure well-being

  1. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) & GNP (Gross National Product)
  2. Unemployment levels
  3. The HDI (Human Development Index)
  4. SWB (subjective well-being)

• HDI (Human Development Index)

   The UN's statistical tool used to measure a country's overall achievement in its social and economic dimensions based on:
  

  1. longevity
  2. their level of education attainment and 
  3. their standard of living.
     

• subjective well-being (SWB)

  A person’s cognitive and affective evaluations of his or her life, measured by:
  

  • one's mood & emotions
  • one's living and work situations 
    

• Absolute need definitions of poverty

  Answer the question "What is the bare minimum (destitution) level in order for a person/family to survive?"

• In 2015, the absolute poverty line in Canada was ________ per person per year.

  $2664

• Stats Can Low-Income-Cut-Off (LICO)

  Income thresholds below which a family will likely devote a larger share of its income on the necessities of food, shelter and clothing than the average family.

• family living in constrained circumstances

  Spending more than 50% of income on essentials for living.

• family designated as low-income.

  Spending more than 70% of income on essentials for living.