Gay Liberation - An organized movement of gays (homosexuals) that attempts to change attitudes expressed toward them and to obtain full legal rights.
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Gay Liberation - An organized movement of gays
(homosexuals) that attempts to change attitudes expressed toward them and to
obtain full legal rights.
Gender - is the culturally specific
set of characteristics that identifies the social behaviour of women and men and
the relationship between them.
Gender, therefore, refers not simply to women or men, but to the relationship
between them, and the way it is socially constructed. Because it is a relational
term, gender must include women and men. Like the concepts of class, race and ethnicity, gender is
an analytical tool for understanding social processes.
Gender Equality
- means that women and men enjoy the same status. Gender equality means that
women and men have equal conditions for realizing their full human rights and
potential to contribute to national, political, economic, social and cultural
development, and to benefit from the results.
Gender Equity
- is the process of being fair to women and men. To ensure fairness, measures
must often be available to compensate for historical and social disadvantages
that prevent women and men from otherwise operating on a level playing field. Equity
leads to equality.
Generalist approach - An social work approach using problem solving that attempts to address
the needs being experienced by the people suffering from a problem. It is based
on system theory.
Gestalt
psychology - A school in psychology that emphasizes the organized
character of human experience and behaviour. Gestalt is a German word that means
form, pattern, or configuration. Gestalt psychology thus emphasizes the study of
wholes or whole patterns.
Globalization
- the
newest development in the expansion of global capitalism. It is a new
manifestation of an old system of market liberalism, only this time it is
occurring on an international, rather than national level. Marked by the expansion of the size and power of
multinational corporations.
Government Annuities Act -
(1908) provided a system whereby people might provide for their old age by
periodical or occasional payments or lump sums to a government operated annuity.
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, The
- A railway line started in 1852 to connect Toronto to Montreal. Its goal was to
eventually connect all of Canada. It grew steadily, often by buying up smaller
operations. In 1923 the Grand Trunk Railway joined with the Pacific Railway to
form the Canadian National Railways.
Grant - A
monetary payment to people who have not previously contributed to the source of
funds from which payments are made.
Grass Roots Level - Used to describe the basic level of a society usually the community,
village or neighborhood.
Gray Panthers - A
social-political organization of elderly citizens who work actively for their
rights.
Great Coalition, The - Fuelled by political impasse, fear of the American
Civil War in the early 1860's, and the idea of a confederation of British North
America, the Great Coalition was a political union between Reformers and
Conservatives.
Great
Depression – The largest downturn or
economic depression in the economy in Canada took place in 1930s. It was
characterized by deflation, which occurs when no one is buying products.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - The value of the total final output of goods
and services produced by a nation within a given period, usually a year, not
including that produced by its domestic firms in foreign countries. In recent
years GDP has become more commonly used than GNP, to get a truer picture of how
a geographical nation is doing.
Group
- a plurality of individuals who are in
contact with one another, who take one another into account, and who are aware
of some significant commonality.
Group membership -
the group work experience requires individuals who need each other in order to
work toward the goals they have set for themselves.
Group Work -
a social work method practised with groups of individuals. This method includes
five steps: intake, assessment and case plan, group composition, intervention
and termination.
Groups,
Treatment - Treatment groups gather for the purpose of meeting the
therapeutic objectives of the group members. People work as group to address
problems that they experience personally. The three types of treatment groups
are family or household groups, therapy groups and self-help or peers groups
Growing labour
supply - a structural factor impacting
on unemployment. The labour force has grown more rapidly in the last 20 years
than any other period in history.
Growing scientific imperative -
the idea that natural and social worlds could be understood through research,
and our understanding of world not wholly dictated by religious beliefs.
Guaranteed
Annual Income (GAI) - A program that provides a floor income on a
continuing basis, which may vary depending on household configuration, age and
other sources of income. Merging all or parts of the federal child benefit,
welfare, employment insurance, and old age security programs would constitute
such a minimum-income supplement. The GAI can be implemented using either a
universal grant or a negative income tax.
Guaranteed Income Supplement (G.I.S.)
- which is part of
level 1 (basic minimum) of the 3 Tier Retirement Income Security system was
intended to supplement the O.A.S. in order to guarantee a certain minimum
income. It is not taxable, but is means-tested.