Test 1 Flashcards
(91 cards)
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Oppression
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Denying human rights, Ex. “All lives matter”
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Anti oppressive practice
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Helps against oppression, based on the other forces at play
Educating people on why they are being treated that way, helps with confusion
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Social location
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Subjectivity
Ex. Blended vs. Nuclear
- binary vs non binary
- sexuality
- radicalized vs. White
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Intersectionality
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Concurrent analysis of multiple, intersecting sources of subordination/ oppression, and is based on the premise that the impact of a particular source of subordination way vary.
Originally created by Kimberly Crenshaw.
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Equity
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Leveling out
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Equality
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Everyone gets the same
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Capitalism
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A mode of production characterized by private ownership of the means of production, production for exchange, a social division of labor and the transformation of labor power (the capacity to work) into a commodity
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Marxism
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The forces that shape peoples lives are organized socially, according to a division of labor
Human beings make their own history, but : they do not make it as they please, they to not make its under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past
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Underlying assumptions that shape our lives
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- People have material needs that they must satisfy
- That the satisfaction of the needs leads to new needs
- Human beings must reproduce their species
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Capitalist society
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Some people own and control productive resources (factories, mines, mills)
These same people relieve income and make a living through ownership of productive property
Not in a position to operate productive resources alone and instead looks for help- supplied by those who survive by selling the only things they own, labour power
Understanding the relationship that exists between the two distinct groups is key
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Being a Marxist social worker
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-We recognize obligations not just to our employer, but to the people and community members with whom we work
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Oppression
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Bi-directional
You either experience either the benefit or burden of it
Cannot be neutral
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Structural social work
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“It was the society and its social arrangements that were sick, not the Individual”
“Trouble“ versus “issues”
Combine skills of direct intervention with an ideal vision: they know what they we doing
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structural social work
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Rooted in Marxist ideas
Rooted in feminism
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Primary structures
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Patriarchy, racism, capitalism, heterosexist, ageism, ableism
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Secondary structures
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Personality, family, community, bureaucracy (including those of the medial, schools and government)
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Structural social work
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Combine skills of direct intervention with an ideal vision: they know what they were doing
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Structural social work
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Understanding underlying sources of their condition and to empower them to resist work towards transformative social vision
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Structural social work
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Not mixing politics with social worK practice and must remain neutral, non-judgemental, non-directive hour interventions OR
Must embrace this critique and take it as a call to action
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Structural social work
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Critical of existing social economic and political institutions/ practices
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Structural social work
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Societal decisions trump economic descisions
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Structural social work
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Addresses the immediate material, social and psychological needs of the individuals and communities who have been damaged and oppressed
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Marxist social work practice
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Spending time in reflection and beginning to recognize the ways in which our privilege will impact the work we do
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Marxist social work practice
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We must consider both the impacts of oppression for those who are marginalized and the impacts on those who are privileged
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Marxist social work practice
Promote the inevitable transformation to capitalist society, end the exploitation of workers, ensure the communal distribution of wealth and create a world where people lived together in freedom,
Solidarity and care
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Principles of structural social work
- Defence: assessment tools, being very intentional with the tool
- power: being aware of the power differences, how much we will share the power
- unmasking structures: not pathologising
- personal change: working social change and make small changes to wellbeing. Doing the physical work and what else we and to for you
- collective consciousness
- political change
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Power over
Ex. Childwelfare
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Power to
Counselling
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Power with
-Equal
-Healthy marriage
-"Where to you want to start?”
-Respect
-People are bigger than their issues
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Theory
-Description
-Explanation
-Prediction
-Control
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Systems/Ecological
Bowers
-An effort to conceptualize social work-practice in a way that gives equal weight to the individuality of our client as people and to the social (even physical) environments that do so much to determine their wellbeing
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Systems/ecological
Bronfenbrenner
-Investigations into the interactions between genetics and environment in family processes; transitions and linkages between the family and other major settings influencing development, such as health care, education (school, daycare) peer groups, social networks, employment, neighborhood’s, communities, public policies, etc.
-Includes micro, messo, chrono, macro and exo systems
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General ecosystems theory
-Reinforces the idea that we are all interconnected, with each other and with the various social systems in which ve exist
-We cannot truly understand service users outside the context of their environment
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Ecological
-Goodness of fit between the organism and their environment
-How do systems adapt to one another
-The dependence we have upon our social and physical world
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The Ecomap
-Derived from the ideas of bronfenbrenner and his systems theory
-Highlights the belief that we are all linked to our environments and that we must maintain our dual focus in social work - the person and their environment
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Micro environment
Interpersonal/ intrapersonal
The individual - their personal qualities, their likes/dislikes, abilities/ disabilities, values, goals, their problem
The family- interactions between family nombres, family processes, roles
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Messo environment
Groups and communities
Schools, neighbour hoods, peer groups, church/faith community, community centres, LGBTQ groups
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Macro environment
Systemic issues
Healthcare systems, legislation, policy, systems of oppression
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Feminist theorizing
-Challenging the status quo that engenders particular injustices
-Offering an alternative way of conceptualizing injustice that is grounded in the lived experience of women and which redresses the injustice
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Gendered lens
in feminism
Gender needs to be a factor in identifying solutions… the goal is transformation, not adding to the status Quo
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Transformational feminism
Its not about layering onto the current system
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Personal is political in feminism
Social construction of gender; change needs to be bottom up
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Democratized structures and processes in feminism
Not just what, but how
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Inclusivity and intersectionality in feminism
Feminism isn't jus for white women anymore
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Care and caregiving in feminism
Caretaking and maintenance of social ties are essential to social change work
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Feminism
The primary objective is the elimination of patriarchal society.
Seeks to transform personal and social relationships, and to end all systems of subordination and privilege
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Feminism
The use of consciousness raising as the mechanism through which personal experiences ave limited to political solutions.
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Feminism
-Involves the total person - emotionalI, intellectual, physical and spiritual. It empowers rather than “works on” constituent groups.
-Provides a vision of a radically different society in which the oppressive moans of power and privilege are eradicated.
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Clinician at a micro level, Feminism in practice
Work in partner ship with individuals and families, helping them understand how the presenting issues on problems are connected to larger societal dynamics informed, at least in part, by gender
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A policy analysis or practitioner in the institutional arena
-feminism
would help reveal gendered realities of social problems, such as the feminization of poverty or the many ways in which the state attempts to regulate one lives of women
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Social movement activist in feminism
On a societal level,
would help articulate the connections between the personal problems and broader societal trends so that a political solution could be generated, while being mindful that the voices of woman and other oppressed groups not just to be heard, but also drive the strategies and actions
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Feminist social worker
Aware of and challenge power differentials in their practice. Consistently challenge the palliative aspects of professional power, they search for options that are mutually beneficial, rather than achieving success at the expense of others... Using to free oppressed individuals and groups is viewed as a primary avenue to liberation
Concerned with both process and outcome, work towards consensus building and are generally non-hierarchial
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Early feminism
Women's suffrage, basic rights
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Feminism 1970 and beyond
Violence against women, reproductive health, women-centred organizations
Individual self expression, diversity, sex-positive initiatives
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Contemporary feminisms
Intersectionality, reproductive rights, violence against women, strategic use of the internet and social media (call out culture)
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Indigenous feminisms.
An intersectional theory and practice that focuses on I decolonization, indigenous sovereignty, and human rights for indigenous women and their families
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Indigenous feminisms
Focuses on how sexuality, gender und gender norms shape indigenous peoples' lives; hour these identities intersect with their other identifies related to age, ability, social class, etc; and then how Th is all impacts that over all indigenous identity
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Indigenous feminisms
How gender is embedded in broader power relations, and how the systems that perpetuate sexism, racism and colonialism operate together
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Genocide
Signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves
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Pathway to colonial violence
Historical, multilgenerational and intergenerational trauma
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Pathway to maintain colonial violence
Social and economic marginalization
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Pathway to maintain colonial violence
Maintaining the status Quo and institutional lack of will
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Pathway to maintain colonial violence
Ignoring the agency and expertise of indigenous woman, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people
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Critical race/ transnational feminism
-Acknowledges the distinctive ways in which black women and women of colour more generally experience injustices
-It is conserned with now difference is produced and sustained society
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#Sayhername
The goals and objectives of the movement include engaging communities in conversation and advocacy around black women's experiences of police violence considering race and gender in policy initiatives to combat state violence, and adopting policies to end settual abuse and harassment by police officers
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Liberal feminism
retheorize care as (reproductive) work that s could be valued asexual as equal to the (productive) work that people do outside the home
Seek to broaden vocational choices for women
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Post structural feminism/ transfeminism
Argue that gender has to do with cultural practices, not biology
Society produces certain ideas about what it means to be man or a woman (the binary)
The ways in which we “perform” our identities
Challenging how we know What we know
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Feminist social work
Helps to unlock the client's capacity for decision-making and the acquisition of new knowledge and skills
Fluid and responsive
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Modern timeframe/ beliefs
-The narrative the viewer constructs around the truth will be objective and separate from their experience
-Analytical and logical strive for universal truth
- unified identity tied to larger system, unified mass culture
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Modern timeframe/ beliefs
-Order is from the heirachy
- we can learn from the pasti we can use the past to build on our growing knowledge, and use this toward creating a greater future for everyone
- scientific, experimentation and technology
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Modern timeframe/ belief
-Order is from the heirachy
- we can learn from the pasti we can use the past to build on our growing knowledge, and use this toward creating a greater future for everyone
- scientific, experimentation and technology
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Post modern timeframe/ beliefs
-The viewer unique beliefs and experiences will effect the narrative they construct around the truth
- rejects traditional logic and favours relativism
- individual or small group identity, fragmented cultures that often conflict
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Postmodern/ timeframe/ beliefs
-Aims to subvert the hierarchy
-The past is flawed, different people had differing experiences of the past. We need to change on system upon which we have built society
- attitude of skepticism, irony and rejection of the grand narratives and ideologies of modernism
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Modern thinking in therapy
Professional as expert, goal is often to describe, explain, predict and change behavioural of clients. Believes in grand narratives.
Ex. psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural therapy.
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Postmodern thinking in therapy
There is no universal truth out there is no expert- therapy is collaborative our lives, and our experiences, are socially constructed and can deconstructed. Rejects idea of grand narratives.
Ex. Narrative therapy, solution focused therapy, Emotionally focused therapy.
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A grand narrative
Can be understood as a means to explain the nature of human existence, history and culture. it attempts to provide a comprehensive and unified view of reality and to explain the meaning and purpose of life
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Power in postructuralism
-Encourages a way of looking at the world that challenges what comes to be accepted as "truth" and "knowledge". Calling into question how certain accepted "facts" und “beliefs” actually work to reinforce the dominance one power of particular waters within international relations
- relational, fluid and dynamic
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Discourse
Language, ways of being in the world and forms of life which integrate words, acts I values beliefs, attitudes and social identities. - inherently imbued with power dynamics and ideologies
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Social constructionism
Reality is constructed, or established, through one's interactions with society and culture
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Subjectivities
Postructuralism rejects the idea op a single, coherent "self" and suggests that people can have multiple sometimes contradictory identifies depending on the contexts or discourses they are influenced by. Formed through language and discourse, meaning that how people understand themselves is influenced by the ways society talks about certain identities, roles, and relationship (ex. Gender, race, class)• social structures and institutions (ex. Schools, media, laws) influence how people come to see themselves and others.
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Postructuralism
Rejects binaries an a the ideas of dominant/ normative qualities or identities. Rather, works to deconstruct the very creation of these ideas in the first place.
There is no absolute truth
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Post-structuralism
Focused on a new way to understand power, moves away from Marxist, and structural theory and works less with subjectivities (fixed) and towards subjectivities (fluid)
Concerned with how power care to be, tracing back the history
Of knowledge
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Post-structuralism
-Know discourse and knowledge are driving factors to producing the dominant ideology on "power" and how they produce what is seen as universal truth
-/Understanding how social workers can be known as experts and their practices go unquestioned
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Power- Max Webber
The ability of an actor to realize his ther/their will in a social action, even against on will of others
Getting their own way even against opposition
Coercive power of authoritative power
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French and Raven's model of power
- Coercion
-Reward
- legitimacy
- knowledge
- reference
- informational
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Power- Luke’s model
Controlling agendas
-Who is included excluded from conversations, who con contribute? Who gets to attend parliamentary meetings?
-Controlling the way others see the world
-Threat of harm and other consequences, withholding necessities
Ex. Residential school systems
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Strengths perspective
Challenges may be threatening, but may be sources of opportunity; aspirations must be taken seriously; consumers are served best through collaboration; every environment is full of resources
Values of self-determination and respect of dignity and worth
Are operationalizes by focusing on human needs
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Ecological theory
Collaborative and values the relationships between social workers and users of services; goal is coping and interdependent
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Systems theory
We depend not only on the strengths of individual people, but the straight / power/ ability of social systems to advance large-scale change.
Ex. Units, professional agencies (formal), naturally and spontaneously occurring through community, family, groups (informal), hospitals, governments, institutions etc (societal)
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Positivism
Objective facts and scientific methods
Objective reality and uses quantitative dated
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Interperetivism
Emphasizes subjective understanding and social context
Subjective meaning and uses qualitative data
