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Gender and the Welfare State: The British Feminist Critiques

  • Park Mee-Sok;Han Jeong-Won;Song In-Ja
    • International Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.73-94
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    • 2002
  • The important argument explored in this article is women's position in welfare regimes. By examining feminist critiques on the welfare state, we intend to look into whether the welfare state is designed to promote the equal status of both men and women. In the post-war period, it was believed that social provision, together with full employment and rising real wages, would improve the welfare of all citizens. However, women were inevitably treated as second class citizens by the new welfare legislation and were assumed to be economically dependent on their husbands. As a result, though welfare provision plays a significant and liberating role in women's lives in some ways, it may also serve to restrict women by defining them in certain ways. This contradictory situations is especially true in successfully developing third world countries such as Korea. This is because the western welfare state can be misconceived as an idealistic model in which men and women obtain equality in terms of social context.

A Study for Establishing the Housing Welfare Delivery System in Incheon (인천시 주민자치센터의 주거복지 전달체계 구축 연구)

  • Park, Nam-Hee;Choi, Jae-Soon
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.290-295
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to establish the housing welfare delivery system in Incheon. Documentary research and content analysis methods and survey were used in this study. Data drawn from internet homepage of each community center, gu-office and city hall in Incheon.. The major results of this study are as follows. 1) Related works of housing welfare are housing welfare facility management, self helf center, support service of housing life, residential environment management 2) Housing welfare delivery system consists of city, gu-office, community center order. There are many problems that the lack of experts and department of housing welfare and inconsistent works. 3) There should be optimize the related works of housing welfare in order to increase of efficiency of works and to prevent overload to public servant. 4) Housing welfare delivery system needs to co-work through collaborative network in order to realize welfare society. And each main groups have to establish their horizontal relationships.

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The Relationship between Farmers' Perceptions and Animal Welfare Standards in Sheep Farms

  • Kilic, I.;Bozkurt, Z.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.26 no.9
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    • pp.1329-1338
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we investigated the relationship between welfare standards in sheep farms and farmers' perceptions of factors affecting animal welfare. We developed a scale of 34 items to measure farmers' perceptions of animal welfare. We examined the relationships among variables in farmers' characteristics, our observations, and farmers' expressed perceptions through a t test, variance analysis and correlation analysis. Results of the research suggested that higher welfare standards for sheep exist on farms run by farmers who have a higher perception level of animal welfare. These farmers believed that personnel and shelter conditions were more effective than veterinary inspection, feeding and other factors in terms of animal welfare. In addition, we detected a significant relationship between the farmers' perceptions and their gender, educational level, whether they enjoyed their work, or whether they applied the custom of religious sacrifice. Our results showed that emotional and cognitive factors related to farmers' perceptions may offer opportunities for progress in the domain of animal welfare.

A Study of Welfare Program for the Social Welfare Agencies (수용보호시설(收容保護施設) 운영개선(運營改善) 방향(方向))

  • Kim, Jin-Bok
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.3
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    • pp.47-62
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    • 1982
  • This paper is intended to study actual condition and problems of Social Welfare, and to institute the plan of social welfare administ ration. Recently, Social welfare agendas, public and private, in our country adhere to traditionary and temporary relief of the clients. The improvement of social work is neglected among some pravile social welfare organization in this society are as follows : Firstly, Big enterprises should undertaken the non-earnest social welfare foundation, this plan, however, can be eastablished by policy making of the proper authorities. Secondly, improvement of public institution and personnel administration should be stressed and innovated. Thirdly, We should not rely on the other social welfare organization and perform our own way of duty. Lastly, The government, community and private social work organization should accomplish cooper ation system among them.

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The Current State and Evaluation of Family Life Welfare Policy and Service Delivery System in Korea (한국 가정복지 정책과 서비스 전달체계의 현황 및 평가)

  • 최윤실
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.99-118
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study was to review the current state and issues of family life welfare policy and service delivery system in Korea Up to now social welfare has exclusively represented welfare area and family life welfare has been treated as a subarea of social welfare not an independent area Recently the organization system of family life welfare in Korea was reorganized. The depatment of family life welfare was disorganized and the role and function of it was dispersed. The present policy for family life welfare and service delivery system pose many issues in legal arrangement administrative dimension approach characteristics of welfare concerned department institution professional personnel and certificate system.

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The Effect of Welfare Status on Welfare Attitudes: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Trust in Government (복지지위가 복지인식에 미치는 영향: 정부신뢰의 조절효과를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Go Eun
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.125-150
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    • 2016
  • This study was carried out to empirically analyze the hypothesis that the impact of the welfare status on the welfare attitudes is moderated by each individual's level of confidence in government. To do this, this study focused on the welfare status known as the significant predictors of welfare attitudes and measured the welfare status as a gap between 'welfare contribute' and 'welfare benefit' in a single dimension, which is defined as 'material sacrifice'. Also, this study examined the main effect of material sacrifice and trust in government on the welfare attitudes and moderating effect of trust in government on relationship between material sacrifice and welfare attitudes. This study was performed with secondary data from 8th year of "2013 Korea Welfare Panel Study". Hypothesis of this study were verified using hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The major findings of this study are summarized as follow. 'Material sacrifice' was found to be negatively associated with the welfare attitudes. However, as the confidence in which social policies will be carried out competently by government increases, it was confirmed that the negative effect of material sacrifice on the welfare attitudes was moderated. It suggests that self-material interests associated with welfare could be moderated by beliefs and expectations about the government's functions, which means that expanding the reliance on the social policy is an important task in order to lead a social consensus for the welfare expansion.

A Study on the Social Cleavage Structure of Welfare Politics : Beyond the Limitations of Class Theories, towards a New Theoretical Framework (복지정치의 사회적 균열구조에 관한 연구 : 계급론의 한계와 새로운 분석틀)

  • Ahn, Sang-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.43
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    • pp.193-221
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    • 2000
  • The conventional framework of welfare politics, based on class concepts, tends to fail in explaining the recent social changes. Theoretical response from the social science diverges into two blocs. One is the postmodernist approach that denies possibility of structural cleavage; the other is the alternative trial that seeks to find various kinds of cleavages. The former approach is to be rejected because there is few empirical supports for it. The latter is too sparse to be applied to the studies of welfare politics that requires a comprehensive analysis. This study starts from critical investigation of such approaches, aiming at providing a theoretical framework that combines merits of existing studies on welfare politics. The theoretical framework of three statuses of welfare rights and duties, which is to be presented as an alternative to the conventional class counterpart, does not only underscore the expansion of welfare rights but also the burden of welfare duties. Hence, it can comprehensively subsume complex existence of interest cleavages of welfare politics. To make a long story short, individual interest, related to the welfare state, will effect individual attitudes toward the welfare state and their ways of political support.

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A Study on the Experience and Need for the Family Life Welfare Service in Korea (한국의 가정복지서비스 수혜실태 및 요구도에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Mee-Sok;Chun, Jee-Won;Lee, Yu-Ri
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.41 no.10 s.188
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    • pp.129-147
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of study was to improve the quality of the Family Welfare Service in Korea. For the purpose, this study consists of these main subjects. A analysis about the experience and satisfaction of the family life welfare services. And a analysis about the Needs of family life welfare services. The data was collected from 407 low-income families experienced of family life welfare service. The results are as follows They experienced more less $40\%$ of the family life welfare service. It appeared family life welfare service in Korea was still not 'for the family' but 'of the family'. The most of the them experienced or family lire welfare service did not satisfy about services. They hoped to set the family lire welfare services about housing, elderly-care, child-care, job opportunity.

Gender Perspective and Women's Welfare Policies in Korea -On the Basis of the Results of a Survey on the Degrees of Perceptions of Women's Welfare Policies, Needs, and Satisfactions- (성인지적 관점과 한국의 여성복지정책 -여성복지정책인식, 요구도, 만족도 조사를 중심으로-)

  • 박미석;송인자;한정원
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.195-212
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    • 2004
  • This research is based on the survey of welfare beneficiaries, aiming to set up the gender-equal welfare policies. Through the survey, this research examines status of women in the family and society and also examines, the degree of perception of women's welfare policies, needs, and satisfaction. According to the survey results, the current welfare policies that are limited to needy women should expand its range, enforcing the infra structure. That employment policy for women turned out to be very important in welfare policies. Demand for more enlarged welfare policies is quite high, especially in housing, employment and elderly care. On the contrary, the degree of satisfaction degree appears quite low because of unrealistic welfare program and benefits. In order to improve the welfare policies, more active and realistic employment policies should be emphasized with the proper support for family life. To raise the status of women, proper policies for women's economic independence should be set up. In addition, consciousness of gender equality should be encouraged in the whole society. Also, women's participation in politics and decision-making process is necessary.

Is It Necessary for Government to Recruit Professional Social Welfare Workers? (사회복지 전담 공무원 제도 과연 필요한 것인가?)

  • Song, Keun-Won
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.48
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    • pp.271-301
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    • 2002
  • This paper is to provide the legitimacy of the recruit system of professional social welfare workers in public sector with government by analyzing the evaluation results of the supervisors. In order to evaluate the public welfare workers recruit system, 500 supervisors are selected randomly from the universe of 2,880 supervisors working in the public welfare field. They are not a professional social worker, but an administrative supervisor in hierarchical structure. Among them 302 supervisors give their views on the recruit system, social welfare workers' job achievement, job attitude, ability, and professional values. They assess the workers' job achievement very positively, which are affected by job attitude, ability, and professional values. They agree that it is very valuable to exist the recruit system of professional social welfare workers in public sector, because it has contributed to increasing the workers' job achievement level in the public welfare field. This study concludes that it is successful to adopt the recruit system of social welfare workers in public sector, and suggests that the system be developed further in public welfare field. Besides, this paper insists that professional public welfare workers recognize that they are one of the members of the organization and they work together with administrative staffs.

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