SDG Detail

SOCI3040 - Human Services in the 21st Century: Care, Gender and Institutions

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Project description

This unit explores the concept of care and its application in a range of different human service fields including mental health, childcare, child protection, disability services and aged care. We explore the links between informal supports, typically, although not exclusively, provided by women within families and households; and formal supports as provided by professional, trained and untrained staff, through organisations and other, often newly emergent, systems of support. Drawing together the fields of social theory and applied research, this unit provides an opportunity to examine responses to changing concepts of human need for interpersonal support. You will be able to learn from policy makers and practitioners working in this field, and analyse current research on care and human services in Australia and other comparable countries.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization Macquarie University

Project aims

Project outcome

1. Exhibit a critical understanding of the different meanings attached to the concept of care and of changing patterns in the need for care across the life course. 2. Analyse the characteristics of care in intimate interpersonal relationships, as well as in contexts in which professional relationships require the provision of care to strangers. 3. Recognise the contribution of a range of sociological, economic and demographic and other perspectives to developments in care and human services. 4. Work with a range of policy documents concerned with the planning, provision, regulation, and funding of human services. 5. Apply a number of research perspectives to the study of human services. 6. Learn how to work as part of a social research or policy development team. 7. Understand the key issues involved in undertaking social analyses of policies and programs for the development of human services.