Inequality in U.S. Social Policy

Explores the Policy-based roots of inequality in the US, helping students better understand why many of their clients are disadvantaged Achieves diversity focus of many social work schools Demonstrates the role of values, culture, power and ideology in shaping policy Wide-ranging focus on the relationship between social inequality and social policy Covers not just the typical areas of social policy analysis, but also the not so typical for social work, i.e., immigration/migration, housing segregation, and labor segregation and exclusion, all of which have had and have a profound effect on contemporary social arrangements and some groups’ access to society’s rewards and privileges. Uses critical race theory and structural oppression theoretical frameworks Challenges students to critically examine the historical roots of many of the social inequalities experienced by particular groups