Is Social Reform Right Or Wrong

People who are willing to challenge society for their rights and accept any resulting consequences will more often than not, cause a change in

Throughout time there have been many people who have wanted to enact change or make a difference. Cesar Chavez helped migrant farmers with their unsafe work conditions and their lack workers’ rights. Mother Jones marched for children’s rights and to create child labor laws. Van Jones is fighting for human rights currently. These people all did amazing things and all fought for a singular purpose.Cesar Chavez, Mother Jones, and Van Jones all helped fight to enact change, by making people notice their cause and by having the perseverance to keep fighting for others to have better lives.

Have you ever wondered how some people enact change? Mother Jones protested for child labor laws. Melba integrated a white high school in order to get rid of racism. Nelson Mandela joined South Africa’s congress to help racism. They all persevered to enact change, but they took different approaches for their problems.

The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act eradicated the previous systems of relief offered to the poor in Victorian England before 1834. This legislation was written up and passed with relatively little difficulty and a lot of parliamentary support. The gist of the amendment was to decrease the amount of impoverished citizens. This was the ultimate goal without providing any actual help for the poor themselves. The 1834 amendment reformed poor laws across the country while also establishing a wide network of workhouses as was fashioned in the amendment.

During the turn of the century, in the 1900’s, conditions were harsh in working areas and big businesses were growing largely. There were many things wrong with the time period, and Theodore Roosevelt recognized this. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to introduce progressive reforms and restrictions to the country. This impacted many areas of people and businesses. Areas of reform included conditions for the coalmine workers, civil rights, and breaking trusts in businesses.

Welfare, enacted by one of the greatest presidents of the United States’s existence, Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, is an effective and useful means to assist American families in need. Throughout history, welfare has proven to help people get back on their feet and into society. Despite the system’s many useful benefits, like most attributes in this world, welfare has kinks in the system. In fact, welfare has yet to be perfected, even though it was established in the year of 1935 and is still in use today. The system may never be perfected, but it can be improved. There are many different thoughts and ideas pertaining to how welfare should change. Some believe it should be eliminated entirely. In doing so, many people all across the nation would be harmed in financial and mental manners. How can welfare be reformed? Is it even possible? The answer is absolutely. It must be reformed, and many would agree on the matter. It is, however, a sensitive and controversial topic to most. Political parties tend to take interest in the discussion of welfare reform, as well. The typical, left-wing Democrat wishes to give more to welfare users, while the standard right-wing Republican would like to decrease what is given to Americans. If everything has its imperfections, why should welfare be reformed? Why not leave it the way it is and let the government figure out the fine print? There are those that take this sort of stance on welfare reform, and there are some that believe differently.

Chapter 8: Reform I think Frances Perkins was a driven woman with the best intentions. With her history, knowledge, and passion, there was no better person to lead the reforms after the Triangle fire. I think she was right to see the tragedy as an opportunity to push for social reform, because she took the basic things that so many of those workers who perished had fought for and took them even further. There was no better time to bring these issues forward for reform in my opinion, as sometimes it takes disasters for officials to see the extent of reform that is needed. I think her commitment to social reform was commendable, and the reforms that she pursued were worthy causes and consistent in their theme.

Reformers had the desire to create moral order, and between the 1830s and 1840s, they established new institutions which were meant to heal the human being spiritually and morally. Institutions like prisons, orphanages, asylums and poorhouses started to proliferate. The common ideology was that of perfectionism, by which someone who was once considered incurable could now be set free. In fact, the belief was that people who entered an institution could be rehabilitated and eventually released back into society. However, with time, many institutions would prove to be crowded places where people were simply kept away from society. On the other hand, institutions like tax supported state schools were made available for all children. Horace Mann,

The Progressive-Era’s reform efforts were conducted by the Progressives who were mainly middle-class, passionately religious, men and women who had extra time, money, and resources to dedicate to the reform efforts (Schultz, 2014). Women and followers of the Social Gospel movement were the two main groups behind the reform. Progressive reformers set out to end corruption in politics, improve lives of all humans, and boost governments intervention to safeguard citizens. The Social Gospel Movement was huge in the fight against prostitution, trying to end poverty, and achieving social justice. Two main leaders were Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch who hit hard opposition in their direction of a Jesus-inspired kindness reform from the

The Progressive community mainly contained Northeastern caucasians, all whom are well educated and middle class. At first, progressivism is more of a social reform movement than a political party, until 1912. The unification of the movement was the ideology of Social Darwinism(that the policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering), was morally and intellectually wrong.

The muckrakers were always finding things that weren't done right to always get the worse out of the people they reported on. Just like Progressive social reforms work to address the poor. Progressive shared common was a belief that industrialization and urbanization had created troubling social and political problems. Not only just about the poor but about the Settlement houses as well were a big concern. The rapid growth generated a profusion of problems for city dwellers. These were the main to concern at the times.

In this essay is about the relationship between the social policy and social problem, but before going into a deep understanding of the two related parts that involve in a society, let is defined each one of them and know what they are and how they connect. When it comes defining the social policy or social problem; there is no one solid definition for them as it has many definitions because of their widely involvement in the society. In Bessant Theories, Mark Considine (1994;2) , fairly recommended that policy is cleverly easy caption that is able to cover parts of actual complicated actions.

In 1729, Jonathan Swift's country, Ireland, was being controlled predominantly by England. This being the case, I do not believe this proposal to be a serious one, or at least fully. Jonathan is whole heartedly devoted to bring awareness to the current plight that Ireland is going through, this being the full domination by England. Ireland, for all intents and purposes, is already selling their children to England. This is not to be taken literally, but metaphorically in the way that they are already giving everything to England and might as well go even further by selling their own children as food to the "rich", in this case the "rich" or "upper class" being England. Jonathan Swift is known for attempting to "fix" the problems in Ireland, or at least improve the conditions in which everyone is living.

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Institutional Social welfare is designed to prevent problems. “They are proactive and provide benefits or services to people before problems arise.” (Segal, pg. 39). It's a system in which one's need is accepted as normal part of social life. It is not just for the poor, but for everyone. A view that emphasizes on preventative role of social welfare of the individual is the responsibility of the social collective. The market is unable to meet the needs and goals of people, therefore, the optimal distribution of welfare is only achieved by acknowledging that there is a significant role for a publicly-funded and organized system of institutions. At my institution we focus on Service members budgets. We are designed to help service members in a time of need and future. For instance we do what we call FFP (financial fitness plan,) if we see a service member relies on us too often, we have administer an FFP. An FFP is where we add up all expenses and show the service member where their money is going and how to budget and save. I think Institutional welfare is a positive way to prevent future problems and almost everyone benefits.