Macro/Research Flashcards
In psychosocial assessment, the individual’s degree of dependability and consistency; in social research, the dependability and consistency of scores on a test that is repeated over time with the same group.
Reliability
The prejudgment and negative treatment of people based on identifiable characteristics such as race, gender, religion, or ethnicity.
Discrimination
Stereotyping and generalizing about people, usually negative, because of their genetic background; an ideology that a group’s genetic physical characteristics are linked in a direct causal way to psychological, intellectual, or behavioral traits and these distinguish superior and inferior groups.
Racism
A combination of elements with mutual reciprocity and identifiable boundaries that form a complex or unitary whole; may be physical and mechanical, living and social, or a combination of these.
Systems
Actions taken to keep conditions known to result in disease or social problems from occurring.
Primary Prevention
An alliance of individuals and ideological groups to
achieve a specific goal or address a single issue or social problem; The group is expected to disband once the goals are reached.
Ad Hoc Agency/Coalition
A problem-solving tool often used in social welfare
planning, administration, and community organization for assessing the degree of resistance or receptivity to a proposed change.
Force Field Analysis
An orientation or set of beliefs that holds that one’s culture, racial or ethnic group, or nationality is inherently superior to others.
Ethnocentrism
A diagram or graphic presentation is often used by group workers to display how members of the group feel about one another and how they tend to align themselves with some and against other members of the group or organization.
Sociogram
The activities of social workers to bring services and information about the availability of services to people in their home or usual environments.
Outreach
The customs, habits, skills, technology, arts, values,
ideology, science, religion, and political behavior of a group of people in a specific time period.
Culture
The adoption of an individual or group to the social patterns, behaviors, and values of others.
Acculturation
A system of moral principles and perceptions about right versus wrong and the resulting philosophy of conduct that is practiced by an individual, group, or profession.
Ethics
A situation that occurs when two or more moral values seem to be equally valid but contradictory and the individual is required to make the best possible choice from among them.
Ethical Dilemma
A belief about the supposed superiority or inferiority of individuals, groups, or nations based on their ethnic affiliations.
Cultural Bias
A pattern of antisocial behavior by people younger than age 18 (or 21 in some jurisdictions) that would be regarded as criminal in nature if committed by adults.
Juvenile Delinquency
An organizational plan, social policy, or legal doctrine that specifies how many or what proportion of people of an identified status will be included in an identified group; may include or exclude people.
Quota System
A formal process of evaluating the type and amount of service offered and delivered to organizations to determine if those services are justified; This often occurs when funds for agencies are received from government bodies or other third-party groups.
Utilization Review
Those individuals or groups who have a greater
probability of being harmed by specific social,
environmental, or health problems than the population as a whole.
Vulnerable Population
A criminal justice procedure permits convicted law violators to leave a correctional facility or other institution to go to their jobs and return to the facility immediately after work.
Work Release
The view that public assistance and other social services are entitlements available to any of a nation’s citizens.
Welfare Rights
Persistent, intense, and unreasonable fear of strangers or foreign people.
Xenophobia
An organization or government’s explicit ruling that a specified intentional act will result in some sanction, including expulsion.
Zero Tolerance Policies
Privately funded and administered federated
organizations, usually with chapters or recreational
facilities in most communities with the purpose of helping young people achieve their developmental potentials.
Youth Service Organizations
