Social work final exam

What is an origin narrative?

a client's story of how their life experiences, including problematic situations, have shaped their identity and current challenges

Why are origin narratives important?

Which of these is NOT an example of institutional racism that impacted Native people in the United States?

• The indian renewable act of 1830

• The indian Reorganization Act of 1934

• The Native American Housing Act of 1976

The Native American Housing act of 1976

Which of these is an example of institutional racism impacting the Hispanic population in America?

• The Social Security Act of 1935

• The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

• The Haine’s staff act of 1940

Answer: Social Security Act and Fair Labor Standards act

What was executive order 9066?

The Japanese internment act, which moved Japanese from the West coast to the inner US at military-designated areas.

True/False contemporary racism is is not as obvious and is often expressed in publicly acceptable ways 

True

Why do some people deny that contemporary racism exists?

Because contemporary racism is much more subtle and harder to see than blunt racism

What is structural racism?

The ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care and criminal justice. These patterns and practices in turn, reinforce discriminatory beliefs, values, and distribution of resources

Example: Housing Discrimination 46% of Black Americans were homeowners in 2021, while 76% of white Americans owned their home

When can a natural disaster become environmental racism?

When the Government responds poorly

Which are considered examples of environmental racism?

• Flint Michigan

• Canning Crest Fire

• Methane leak in an affluent neighborhood in LA

Flint MI

What is one advantage of the melting pot theory?

It increases the idea that national identity can be made up of multiple identities that are used together under one single emblem.

What is one disadvantage of the melting pot theory?

Strips the individualism and doesn’t allow everybody’s culture to express themselves fully.

This theory acknowledges the identity and cultural differences in a multi-cultural society

Salad bowl theory

During the civil rights movement, the model minority myth became fully formed. Asian Americans suddenly became examples of “successful assimilation.” Why is this myth harmful?

• It pits minorities against one another and leaves little to no room for pluralism.

Acculturation is a process in which an individual adopts, acquires and adjusts to a new cultural environment as a result of being placed into a new culture, or when another culture is brought to someone TRUE/FALSE

True

Acculturation = adapting to a different culture

Enculturation is the process by which people learn the dynamics of their own surrounding culture and acquire values and norms appropriate or necessary to that culture and its worldviews TRUE/FALSE

True

Enculturation = learning your native culture

Pluralism assumes that diversity is good for society. It assumes the peaceful coexistence of different interests. True or False

True

What is the definition of cultural competence used in our classroom?  

A set of congruent ideas, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system or agency or amongst professionals and enable the system, agency or professionals to work effectively in cross cultural situations

In the 1980 and 1990s the theory of cultural pluralism was incorporated. What did this theory emphasize? 

It placed an emphasis on respect for difference

In the 1950’s practitioners operated from a cultural deficit model, what did this model emphasize?

It emphasized mainstreaming everyone into society through assimilation, everyone jumped into the melting pot because of their culture.

1. What is the main difference between cultural competence and cultural humility?

Cultural humility is based on reflection and gaining understanding while cultural competence is based on acquiring knowledge and skills through experiental learning activities.

The goal of the diversity approach to social justice education is….

the appreciation of differences among and within groups in a pluralistic society

What is social construction?

refers to the idea that norms, ideas and institutions that may
now seem natural actually, grew out of specific historical and social processes

Key concept of this statement: “Intersectionality – a term used to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap to form systems of privilege and oppression.”

The formation of systems of oppression

What is scientific racism?

An ideology that uses the methods and legitimacy of science to prove the superiority of white Europeans and the inferiority of non-white people.

Would a social darwinist approve welfare funding?

No because they believe in survival of the fittest