TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
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1. Make a study of your neighborhood with regard to some or all of the following points: (a) Increase in population (b) Changes in the racial type of the population (c) Changes in the occupational tendencies of the population (d) Changes in the spirit of neighborliness (e) Changes in the administration of relief to dependents.
2. Study the causes of dependency in your community with regard to the influence of economic, social, personal and political factors. (For this information, interview local social workers.)
3. Study an actual charity case, and make a diagram or sketch showing the number of factors involved.
4. Make a visit to an almshouse (sometimes called the poorhouse), and report to the class upon conditions there.
5. List and classify the types of institutions which care for dependents in your state.
6. The extent to which institutions for the dependent have been co÷rdinated in your state.
7. Classify the agencies which are performing some type of professional social service in your community.
8. Interview a local social worker with regard to his or her ideals of social service. (Compare the result with the ideals set forth in Section 284 of this chapter.)