SOWK 1001 Final Exam questions well
answered to pass
Social Welfare - correct answer ✔✔The well-being of society and general efforts to improve that
well-being. Well-being includes health, environment, etc. and is influenced by a various amount
of groups/organizations.
Social Policy - correct answer ✔✔Policies that are developed and implemented to promote the
well-being or address problems within society. Many factors influence social policy such as
status and power.
Policy - correct answer ✔✔Decisions made about what to do or not to do about certain
problems and can be made on different levels of government/organizations/individuals .
Welfare State - correct answer ✔✔The structure that a government creates to maintain the
social policies and improve social welfare. Many people have different ideas on how this should
be done.
Individual Responsibility - correct answer ✔✔
Collective Responsibility - correct answer ✔✔
Redistribution - correct answer ✔✔
Government Structure in Canada - correct answer ✔✔Federal : all of Canada
Provincial: provinces
Municipal: cities
,Federalism in Canada - correct answer ✔✔Constitutional Democracy
Division of power
branches of government
Executive (decision making)
Legislative (law making)
Judiciary (interpretation; protect rights and ensure consistency)
Federal is responsible for: - correct answer ✔✔National issues:
-defence
- foreign affairs and trade
- immigration and citizenship
- indigenous affairs
-post
Provincial/Territorial is responsible for: - correct answer ✔✔Regional issues:
- education
-health
- natural resources
- welfare
Municipal is responsible for: - correct answer ✔✔Local issues:
- by-laws
- emergency services
- libraries
- planning
, - waste disposal
- parks and recreation
- transit
- traffic and roads
- police
- health centres and community homes
Fiscal Federalism - correct answer ✔✔The financial relationship between the federal and
provincial governments. Coordination over taxation and grants to provinces for specific
programs such as health care and equalization payments to form a standard of service
provision.
Diversity - correct answer ✔✔The quality of being different or unique at the individual or group
level. This includes work style, culture parental status, sexual orientation, gender, gender
identity, skin colour, language, age, mental and physical abilities and more.
Equity - correct answer ✔✔Is the fair treatment, access opportunity, and advancement for all
people, while at the same time striving to identify and eliminate barriers that have prevented
the full participation of some groups. Improving equality includes increasing justice and fairness
within the procedures and processes of institution or resources. tackling equity issues requires
an understanding of the root cause of outcome disparities within our society.
Leveraging diversity/Inclusion - correct answer ✔✔need an environment where people feel
heard and supported to do their personal best and where unconscious or implicit bias and
systemic barriers are recognized. Diversity always exists in social system but inclusion must be
created.
The role of judiciary in policy - correct answer ✔✔To ensure that legislation and its implements
are consistent with the Charter and also advise the executive and they are thinking about
introducing a new policy.
answered to pass
Social Welfare - correct answer ✔✔The well-being of society and general efforts to improve that
well-being. Well-being includes health, environment, etc. and is influenced by a various amount
of groups/organizations.
Social Policy - correct answer ✔✔Policies that are developed and implemented to promote the
well-being or address problems within society. Many factors influence social policy such as
status and power.
Policy - correct answer ✔✔Decisions made about what to do or not to do about certain
problems and can be made on different levels of government/organizations/individuals .
Welfare State - correct answer ✔✔The structure that a government creates to maintain the
social policies and improve social welfare. Many people have different ideas on how this should
be done.
Individual Responsibility - correct answer ✔✔
Collective Responsibility - correct answer ✔✔
Redistribution - correct answer ✔✔
Government Structure in Canada - correct answer ✔✔Federal : all of Canada
Provincial: provinces
Municipal: cities
,Federalism in Canada - correct answer ✔✔Constitutional Democracy
Division of power
branches of government
Executive (decision making)
Legislative (law making)
Judiciary (interpretation; protect rights and ensure consistency)
Federal is responsible for: - correct answer ✔✔National issues:
-defence
- foreign affairs and trade
- immigration and citizenship
- indigenous affairs
-post
Provincial/Territorial is responsible for: - correct answer ✔✔Regional issues:
- education
-health
- natural resources
- welfare
Municipal is responsible for: - correct answer ✔✔Local issues:
- by-laws
- emergency services
- libraries
- planning
, - waste disposal
- parks and recreation
- transit
- traffic and roads
- police
- health centres and community homes
Fiscal Federalism - correct answer ✔✔The financial relationship between the federal and
provincial governments. Coordination over taxation and grants to provinces for specific
programs such as health care and equalization payments to form a standard of service
provision.
Diversity - correct answer ✔✔The quality of being different or unique at the individual or group
level. This includes work style, culture parental status, sexual orientation, gender, gender
identity, skin colour, language, age, mental and physical abilities and more.
Equity - correct answer ✔✔Is the fair treatment, access opportunity, and advancement for all
people, while at the same time striving to identify and eliminate barriers that have prevented
the full participation of some groups. Improving equality includes increasing justice and fairness
within the procedures and processes of institution or resources. tackling equity issues requires
an understanding of the root cause of outcome disparities within our society.
Leveraging diversity/Inclusion - correct answer ✔✔need an environment where people feel
heard and supported to do their personal best and where unconscious or implicit bias and
systemic barriers are recognized. Diversity always exists in social system but inclusion must be
created.
The role of judiciary in policy - correct answer ✔✔To ensure that legislation and its implements
are consistent with the Charter and also advise the executive and they are thinking about
introducing a new policy.
