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Explain how social problem analyses helps social workers in policy creation. Then, reflect on how policies affect your direct service work with clients in your practicum education placement or employment. Finally, share what you learned about yourself and your values after taking this course. Be specific and provide examples.
Social work has been regarded to primarily focus on the micro practice of self-determination and human dignity in the battle for social justice. Figueira-McDonough (1993) emphasizes the necessity for social workers to impact change at the macro level by “active involvement in the creation and revision of social policy” in order to advocate for oppressed groups (p 180). Legislative lobbying, change through litigation, social action, and social policy analysis were highlighted as four types of policy practice in the study (Figueira-McDonough, 1993). Legislative advocacy advocates for changes in legislation to increase access to resources for underserved communities.
political, and that Shakespeare was at last their ally. The absence of hard insights concerning his life and saw extremist messages in his plays permitted reformers to ‘extend him as a ‘child of the dirt,” and consequently challenge introductions of Shakespeare as an unopinionated public writer, later solidified in famous resistance to the Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1864 (Taylor, 2002: 357). This evaluation is in conflict with the long basic custom of finding in Shakespeare an embrace of ‘moderate negativity’, to cite Tom Paulin, putting him in the ‘monarchist’ and ‘various leveled’ line of Dryden, Pope and Eliot as opposed to the conservative one of Milton and Hazlitt (1996: 110, 112). Coleridge had contended along these lines during a 1818 talk that Shakespeare was a ‘Philosophical Aristocrat’ [original italics]; however he ‘never declares any party precepts’ in his plays, he regardless presents a ‘significant reverence for every one of the laid out establishments of society’ (2016: 140). In the secretly composed ‘The Politics of Poets’, Shakespeare is summoned over and over as proof of writing being political: ‘Are there no governmental issues ready “Hamlet[“]? Isn’t “Macbeth,”… and 100 different works of extraordinary creators, radiant political treatises[?]’ (Chartist Circular, 11/07/1840: 170). The article concretises its contentions by finishing on two citations from Shakespeare’s 2H4, depicted as a ‘outline of eminence’ which prompts the peruser to ponder ‘who might begrudge the wearer of such a doodad as a crown’ (Chartist Circular, 11/07/1840: 170). In both, royals worship the serene rest of the everyday person while differentiating it to their anguished distress: King Henry regrets that ‘rest, liest thou in smoky bunks’ and ‘terrible beds’, doing without his own ‘royal lounge chair’ (3.1.9; 3.1.16), while Prince Hal ponders his dad’s illustrious predicament as he lies in his sickbed, the crown ‘upon his pad,/Being so problematic a bed-individual’ (4.3.152-53). The article stresses how the ‘perfumed offices of the incredible’ (3.1.12) are restless to battle that moving up an order isn’t something to yearn for. All things considered, ‘he whose temple with plain biggen bound/Snores out the watch of night’ is leaned toward by ‘halfway rest’ (4.3.158-59; 3.1.26). This contention depends on implicit interpretative methodologies which are not applied a short time later but instead assume ‘the state of perusing… [giving] texts their shape’, the particular citation turning on assumptions about Shakespeare as an extreme writer (Fish, 1976: 481). By differentiating the vanities of sovereignty with the serene rest of the majority, there is a feeling that the striving middle class likewise have their own fortunate honors which ought to be embraced and maybe prepared, as opposed to begrudging fretful rulers. On the off chance that a power dissemination makes everybody hopeless through either a lot of responsibil