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Social Polices and Social
Welfare Administration
Presented by
Enobong U. Ndekhedehe
Source
 Neugeboren, Bernard (2014) “Social Polices and Social Welfare
Administration,” The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare: Vol. 6: Iss2,
article 4. Available at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol6/iss2/4
Introduction
This review critically reviews the article “Social Polices and Social Welfare
Administration,” The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. I will first
summarize the article, look at the effectiveness of the article’s structure, and
examine how the information is set out and whether the reader can access it
efficiently. Finally, I will criticize the article, assessing its authority, currency,
accuracy, objectivity and coverage. As well as judging the article’s
accessibility and credibility. For me, the article was well written and very
informative, clear and relevant to professionals, policy-makers and students.
Article Summary
The purpose of the article is to find a way that will stop substituting efficiency for
effective by stressing social policy as an essential part of social welfare
administration. This will help in the implementation of social welfare program and
welfare administration. The article suggested the lines of studies that will equip a
manager to be able to manage social welfare programs efficiently and effectively.
The article mentioned that it is better to integrate the knowledge of social policy
with understanding of theory and practice of management and administration
decision-making because it will elude overemphasis on means to the
disadvantage of the goals and social programs.
Also that master program in administration should be developed that will help a
social work middle management workers to acquire a practice that combines
social policy and administration else, we will continue to substitute efficacy for
effective in social program.
Article Structure
The article was introduced with an abstract, which provided the stance or thesis developed by the
article as well as a brief overview of main points.
There was no method used to conduct this study shared, however, the sentences were easy to
understand, terms were explained to the understanding of the reader.
There were several headings with a lot of information in each; several other articles were cited
throughout the text.
The article does not convey conventional way of conducting a research. It was more of literature
review. The abstract and conclusion gave a good recap of the article with a great summary of the
main points. References were not left out as they were cited all over the body of the study and at the
reference section.
The structure of this article was more of academic work and not for program implementation. At the
beginning, it was exciting to read but towards the end, it became cumbersome because of too
many information which was not step by step approach but more of literature review work.
The article was a scanned PDF document, the font and size used was not very good although it was
easily accessed because it was published in an open access journal. In all, it was able to achieve it
purpose of finding a way to integrate social policy in a social welfare administration.
Article critique
Authority:
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare is an open access journal published
quarterly to help in understanding social welfare by translating social science
knowledge, methodology and technology to solving problems of social policy
and politics, social ecology as well as social services.
The author’s credibility in writing this article was established in the sense that he
is an academic staff in the graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers University;
whose interest is in social work education and social welfare administration
and has done related study in the past “Evaluation of Field Education for
Social Welfare Administration”. In this article, he has cited several other authors
to support his study and findings.
Accuracy
The sources of the information in the article are in 1960s and 1970s researches
and paper presentations at various conferences supported with huge
references with their sources cited all over to support the entire work.
The publishing of the article in the journal of sociology and social work in the
recent edition also supported its accuracy because this will help the
subscribers of this journal to understand more of social welfare and how its
social science knowledge, methodology and technology can be promoted to
solving problems of social policy and politics, social ecology as well as social
services.
Currency
The journal is hosted by Western Michigan University, volume 6 Issue 2 March,
published in December 2014, the study is very recent though cited more of
1960s and 1970s works.
Relevance
The article has high reliability in an academic environment like I said earlier; it is
more of academic work than for program implementation. It is meant to
inform everyone for example professionals, policy-makers and students. It will
be very relevant to Social Welfare Program Managers, Institutional Leaders,
Social Workers as well as Policy- makers.
Objectivity:
The information was factually written, supported with huge studies and
numerous references. The article was straight to the point in its suggestions of
the kind of studies and at what level it should be done that will make impact. It
specifically said that Ph.D. program in administration will not be useful at
implementation level rather at University level.
Stability
The article, with its source an academic journal on an academic data base is
stable as a resource.
Conclusion
The review of this article was very tasking; however, every aspect was
reviewed. It was worthwhile because I finally gained a lot from this work.
Initially, I though P.hD level of education is the best in program implementation
but now I know better which made me appreciate my Master’s program
better. The article has contributed to the body of existing knowledge.
Thank you