Deck 5: The Geographic Base of Canadian Social Welfare

Question 1

Undertake a neighbourhood scan of your peopled place and identify ten major social welfare agencies that serve your community; identify your MP, MPP, and municipal representatives; and provide information about five services for children, youth, young adults, adults and seniors. Find the nearest food bank, child welfare agency, hospital, urgent care/community health care clinic, and the centre for a large-scale disaster.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Identify three different geographical regions in Canada and discuss the impact of the geography on the people of the region. Discuss a current social issue related to the environment that has affected the region chosen.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Identify three emergency or disaster events within the last ten years in Canada. Describe the event and the impact the event had on the community, and how future responses may be affected.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Discuss the issues of social welfare that have arisen from the tsunami of December 26, 2004.

Question 5

On July 2^nd, 2005, a series of rock concerts, called Live 8, were held across the world to raise awareness of poverty in Africa. Select a country in Africa and discuss issues of poverty. Provide statistics related to health, disease, education, and income. Why is this happening in Africa and not North America?

Question 6

What is the difference between "placed peoples" and "peopled places"?

Question 7

Why do social work and geography "fit together"?

Question 8

Explain and provide an example from your own experience of the metaphor "I am I and the Environment" (p. 66).

Question 9

In what fundamental areas are place and sense of place vital to human health and development?

Question 10

What are three negative impacts that can be experienced by people due to loss of place and sense of place?

Question 11

What are some processes through which someone could pursue the possibility of "re-inhabiting" the place where you already reside?

Question 12

Feminist geography

A) Argues for links between the oppression of women and the domination of nature
B) Is uncomfortable with abstract and grand theories
C) Is designed to force a rapid transfer to industrialization
D) Is another term for feminist social work

Question 13

Too often, social work literature transforms the broad notion of environment into the much narrower:

A) Physical environment
B) Ecological environment
C) Social environment
D) Objective environment

Question 14

A term used to convey the state that many adults find themselves in, with no real understanding of human settlement patterns or regional interaction, is:

A) Geographic limitation
B) Geographic dementia
C) Geographic disability
D) Geographic illiteracy

Question 15

The following can be said about Western traditions with regard to land:

A) They have promoted holistic conceptualizations about environment.
B) They have moved to collectivist from individualist worldviews
C) They have tended to separate humans from the natural world
D) They have tended to adopt Aboriginal traditions.

Question 16

Many geographers support the notion of "Place" as involving:

A) Location and Way of Life
B) Location plus meaning associated with the location
C) Meaning associated with location
D) Location associated with place of origin

Question 17

Building of sustainable communities and living in tune with the rhythms of nature are associated with what is currently referred to as:

A) Living well in place
B) Living harmoniously
C) Living in juxtaposition
D) Living luxuriously

Question 18

The definition "the attachment that we have to locations with personal significance" best refers to the notion of:

A) Sense of place
B) Sense of identity
C) Sense of people
D) Sense of meaning

Question 19

The ecosystems perspective or framework is applied in geography with three interdependent scales or levels:

A) micro, local and global
B) micro, mezzo and macro
C) local, regional and global
D) local, regional and macro

Question 20

Modern geography:

A) Focuses on landforms, climates, coastlines and vegetation
B) Straddles the divide between the social and the physical sciences
C) Focuses on culture, language, spatial patterns of human activities and meanings
D) Straddles the divide between place and space

Question 21

Zapf and Bodor argue that both human geography and social work may be on the verge of incorporating a sense of materialism that reintroduces a unity of person and environment.

Question 22

When interconnections between species and place are ignored or violated, the effects are long-term and often unforeseen.

Question 23

Environmental concerns are currently third on the Canadian public's agenda.

Question 24

Identity and connection with others has become, in the context of modernity, something linked with place.

Question 25

Separating our relationships into concepts of duality creates a subject/object stance that connects us with the lived world.

Question 26

According to Zapf and Bodor, Aboriginal societies identified themselves with specific places or homelands.

Question 27

Most of the legislation and policies that define our social welfare system have been designed by urban centres in the south.

Question 28

The vision of human potential is the same for an outport fishing village in Newfoundland and a mining town in Northern Ontario.

Question 29

The ecosystems concept is fundamental in human geography and in social work.