SWP132 - final exam review

What is White supremacy and Whiteness?

White supremacy: the thought that the white race is superior compared to others, thus they should dominate institutions, organizations, and society

Whiteness: a fluid, dynamic, and situationally specific social and cultural process that positions those who are white, in terms of skin color, into a place of power and privilege

What is the Critical Race Theory?

identifying racial microaggressions shows how institutionalised, systemic racism emerges and is guided by ideologies of white supremacy

What are effects of Microaggressions?

physiological effects and psychological

What are responses to Microaggressions?

Knowing how and when to defend

Institutional Racism

how racism operates institutionally to continue, right outside of racial microaggression

What is Neo-liberaism?

political approach that favourites capitalism

What is a Structural World View?

- assumes that human behavior is shaped by collective and the social / political / economic structures that make up society
- in terms of structural perspective 'look at individuals in the context of social systems'

What is social order?

Is a set of conditions we all tactically agree to, and the way people tend to cooperate with the system

What is Global North?

economically developed nations (Canada, USA, New Zealand, parts of Asia, etc)

What is Global South?

poorer/less economically developed nations

What is Capital?

Economic-- money
Cultural-- formal education
Social-- who you know

What is individualization?

- Transforms human identity from a ‘given’ to a ‘task’ → performs the task with given consequences
- Demand to develop one’s own perspective and actions

What is virtue ethics?

- promoting moral character and practical wisdom in professional ethics, together is a form of virtue ethics
- is agent-centered focus based cultivating the person to bring out the best in us while carrying out practical actions

What is active citizenship?

- does not challenge those who do the excluding, but points them to

What are the Changes to Code of Ethics?

- the new Code of Ethics gives little guide on how to put human rights and social justice into practice
- moved from doing what is right to what is good

What are the Human rights discourse?

- social work has increasingly identified itself with human rights
- human rights are inseparable from social work theory, values and ethics, and practice

Universalist/relativist continuum

- uni: all members of human family share the same inalienable rights (disregarding culture to the validity of moral rights and rules)
- rela: argues that culture is the sole source of validity of moral rights and rules, there are no common standards

Ethical decision-making

Perception of physical, emotional, & relationship harm

What is Feminism?

Focus was on gender oppression to examine how other forms of oppression operate and impact women along the lines of race, ethnicity, sexuality and class

What is BCRT?

indicates that CRT in the UK works with a not stable blackness which displays that the spread of Africa and Asian people are important to the formation of UK

What are the conditions for Black academics in the UK?

BCRT is not used in the academy in the UK

Settler colonialism

One of the largest problems that Indigenous peoples face, as settlers take over and force their culture and laws upon Indigenous peoples.

Settler colonialism in social work practice

Surveillance.
Pathologization.
Forcing Euro-centric frameworks onto Indigenous peoples.
Assimilation.
Forcible removing of Indigenous children from their families and communities.

Eco spiritual social work

Advocates for a human-nature connection.
Recognizes the environment as it's own entity, views the person-environment dynamic as a mutual relationship.
Draws too strongly on Western ecological thought.
The idea of 'Indigenization'

Critiques of the eco spiritual approach

Draws heavily on Western ideas.
Hints of paternalism treat Indigenous peoples as if they are being given rights to the land instead of being given BACK.

Which organization calls upon social workers to root out colonization from the practice?

The Truth and Reconciliation Comission

Terra nullius

Land belonging to no one

ontology

refers to beliefs about the nature of the world and its realities. Deals with questions of what it means to exist

Epistemology

refers to beliefs about the way things can be understood. Deals with questions about how we can know, like “what are the sources of knowledge, how reliable are these sources, how does one know something is true”

critical thinking

critical thinking is questioning everything and understanding how information is threaded together to make meaning. it is also questioning why it is threaded together in a particular way

what are the three elements of social work theory

description, explanation and prediction/control

description

gathering information and naming the issue. Describe the problem set the stage for the problem and the issue to be addressed

explanation

understanding. Explaining the problem means trying to understand the problem and its causes.

prediction/control

What is likely to happen and for whom if we do nothing? What things can be done to address the problem and what are the likely outcomes of the various solutions.

Black Critical Race Theory (BCRT)

By looking at theories and frameworks, it is the approach to analyzing how black people are oppressed by other institutions

Decolonizing

Free something or someone from the cultural or social effects of colonization. In this situation, the colonization is white power so how can we free them from racism

Conditions for Black Academics in UK

-UK has racism and race dictate one single perspective through the touch of eye on the skin and entanglements

-UK academy denies continuing disgust and contempt for black bodies and BCRT (how they accept the idea of Post-race

-BCRT indicates that CRT in the UK works with a not stable blackness

Concepts of the profession of social work

sets for values and principles to guide social workers' professional conduct

Oppression

pushing "Others" down and not letting them flourish

Anti-Oppression practice

is opposing oppression through practice of social work

How does social worker refer to oppression?

to someone's trouble

What does Mircoaggression describe?

some unintentional prejudiced acts of well-intended individual that emerge from prejudice

How can systemic oppression happen?

One must have some form of power and control over the system

Systemic Oppression

the prejudice of dominant groups that become embedded in systems

How to challenge oppression?

Recognize it and name it

Oppression = ? + ?

Prejudice and Bias + Power

How does whiteness operate?

1. Exomination
How language is used everyday is taken for granted as representing a certain understanding of white people
All ethnic racialized groups are “othered”
2. Naturalisation
White people are the norm whom others are compared
3. Universalization
Framing an understanding of the world from their socio-political and historical vantage point without being questioned

Xenophobia

Fear of others, fear of strangers base on the difference of culture

Social Location

aspect of identity such as race, gender, class, ability etc

Ontology

beliefs about the nature of the world and its realities. Deals with question of what it means to exist

Epistemology

beliefs about the way things can be understood. Deals with question about how we can know, like “what are the sources of knowledge, how reliable are these sources, how does one know something is true”