Studied by 41 PeopleTags & Description
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?
Exomination How language is used everyday is taken for granted as representing a certain understanding of white people All ethnic racialized groups are “othered”
Naturalisation White people are the norm whom others are compared
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”