Final Exam Flashcards

Chapters 6, 12, 15, 4 (online)

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What are the 4 Theories related to Age

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  • Life Course Theory
  • Cumulative Advantage/Disadvantage Perspective
  • Feminist Theory
  • Intersectionality Theory
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What is Life Course Theory?

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  • Each experience affects the next, which affects next, and so on.
  • Influence individuals’ opportunities, life choices, developmental paths, and aging experiences
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What is Cumulative Dis/Ad Perspective

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  • Diversity explained through the accumulation of privileges/disadvantages of one’s life
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What is Feminist Theory (aging)

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  • Explores older women being undervalued within society, oppression within the family and comparatively higher rates of poverty
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What is Intersectionality Theory (aging)

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  • Different dimensions of oppression associated with different categories/intersectionalities
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What is the Narrative Approach with aging pop.?

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  • Clients share their lived experiences incorporating deeper meaning and understanding
  • Supportive outcomes using this approach with aging populations
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What is Dignity Therapy (4 points)

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  • Involves asking questions about life history and work,
  • helping patients to define and refine what their ultimate legacy is and what they want to pass down to the generations that follow
  • encourages saying things to loved ones that have remain unsaid to achieve closure
  • The therapist then helps the patient craft a meaningful document
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What is Medical Assisted in Dying

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March 17, 2021
- Parliament passed revised legislation that makes important changes to who may be eligible to obtain medical assistance in dying and the process of assessment

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Age Cohort vs Birth Cohort

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Age - same age, same period)
Birth - same year
(used to group people for research)

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Things the differentiate/affect entire Cohorts?

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  • political movements
  • environmental disasters
  • historical events/experiences
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Common themes of “I know a Woman Like That” video

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  • they do not feel or identify as old
  • they are excited to try new things and accomplish more
  • they do not see their life as over (not throwing in the towel)
  • they still either feel or want to be perceived as beautiful
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Acculturation

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  • The process of cultural and psychological change that result after a meeting between cultures
  • Individuals may show the effects of acculturation through changes-in their everyday behaviours and ways of perceiving themselves and the world around them. Groups may show the effects of acculturation through changes in their cultural activities and institutions
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Assimilation

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  • A process by which a person or persons acquire the culture, values, and patterns of another group through adopting the social and psychological characteristic of that group
  • move towards host culture
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Integration

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The process of unifying distinctive groups or individuals through full participation in the social, economic, political, educational, and cultural life of a society while retaining ones own unique identity
- merge of both cultures

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15
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Rejection

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move away from host culture

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16
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Marginalization

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move away from both cultures

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17
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Hegemonic Masculinity

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  • Captures dominant male characteristics which are culturally
    specific
  • How men are measured in terms of their manhood (i.e. white, heterosexual, professional, aggressive, independent)
  • Oppressed men who do not fit stereotype
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Toxic Masculinity

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  • Used to describe a set of very narrow standards, behaviours, and expectations for manhood and masculinity that values dominance, power, and control and devalues empathy, the acknowledgment of emotions, and other traits that fit outside of this narrow definition
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Smudging and its benefits

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  • the burning of one or more Indigenous sacred herbs/medicines
  • used for purification/clarifying purposed
  • clear negative energy
  • promote balance
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20
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Sweat Lodge and its benefits

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  • heated dome-shaped structures used by Indigenous peoples during certain purification rites and as a way to promote healthy living.
  • represent a return to mothers womb
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21
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Describe immigration after WWII

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  • increased immigration due to economic demand
  • seeking a balance between population growth and economic
    stability
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22
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Immigration during/after WWI

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  • Fear halted immigration during WWI (1914-1918) and the economy during the Great Depression (1929-1933).
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23
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Dual Diagnosis

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Mental illness + Developmental disability

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Concurrent Disorder

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Mental illness + substance use problems

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25
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Three (3) Models of Disability

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  • Medical
  • Social
  • Independent Living
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Medical Model of Disability

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  • Viewed as having an unwanted disability
  • Often used a ‘blame the victim’ approach
  • Professionals make decision for the person
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Social Model of Disability

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  • Viewed people with disabilities as marginalized and oppressed
  • The environment creates disabling conditions (such as architectural, sensory, economic) not the person
  • Social policy can address and alleviate restriction of participation
  • Criticized for not paying enough attention to personal experience and impact
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Independent Living Model of Disability

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  • Involves people making their own decisions –> such as finances and care, with programs that provide social and medical services
  • Living arrangements allow for modifications to ensure accessibility
  • Client is expert
29
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(Theory of) Gender Fluidity - queer theory

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  • Queer theory supports the idea that gender is fluid.
  • Gender can be seen on a spectrum as opposed to binary.
  • Gender is simply a social construct (as well as sexuality).
30
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Gender-Neutral Language

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  • Language that avoids references or biases towards a particular gender – This helps trans* people feel safe, welcomed, and validated.
31
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Superdiverse Society

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a society in which all people, no just immigrants, are globally connected and mobile, and where time and space are both local and transitional - “like Canada”

32
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Social Dimensions

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a categorical collective that is used yo classify member ship in a particular social group - ex. gender, age, class, race, etc.

33
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Intersectionality

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  • coined by Crenshaw
  • to explain how gender and race intersect in shaping the understanding of violence against women in different social domains - including social welfare, political and justicial systems, and the mass media
  • not about social categories, but the axis of power that shapes them
34
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Positionality

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  • one’s social position in relation to others
  • a persons ability to position themself, and their ability not to be positioned by others?
35
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Intersubjectivity

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  • an interactive process in which active subjects try to exercise their agency to make sense of the context in which they are co-situated and the discourse to which they are co-subjected
  • aka: the process that people engage with each other to understand the situation and the conversation they’re in.
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Generalized other

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a symbolic interactionist concept used to explain how we can understand ourselves by making reference to an “other” that represents the norms, expectations, and regularities that are inscribed onto a role and align with the performance of the occupant of the role with the role’s meaning held by others

  • aka: This idea helps us understand ourselves by looking at how we compare to societal norms and expectations, as well as the roles we play and how others perceive us in those roles.
37
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Four Levels of Structural Oppression

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  • legal system
  • educational system
  • employment
  • healthcare system
38
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Ex. of oppression in the legal system

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  • criminalization of homosexuals
39
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Ex. of oppression in the educational system

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  • gender binary bathrooms and a lack safety for LGBTQ+ students - some school make GSA clubs/groups
40
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Ex. of oppression in employment

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  • fear of “coming out” in workplace due to discrimination, especially for transgender individuals
41
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Ex. of oppression in healthcare

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  • binary, sex specific care
  • lack of gender affirming care
42
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3 Levels of Oppression

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  • Structural
  • Cultural
  • Individual
43
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Heteronormative

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  • the assimilation of heterosexual normalities, or the constructs given to gender and sexual appropriation
44
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Homonationalism

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  • the collective energy of political movements that coexist together and strive towards equality for queers and other minority populations
45
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Gay Liberation

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  • refers to the social and political movement aimed at achieving equality and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals
  • RCMP started a huge anti-gay security campaign in an effort to stop “sexual abnormalities”
  • Noted; Dyke Marches started 1981, Trans Marches started 2004
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Bathhouse Raid

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  • typically refers to a police action where authorities target establishments, often gay bathhouses or clubs, suspected of facilitating illegal activities such as drug use or public sex.
  • Toronto Bathhouse Riots sparked significant protests and activism in Canada’s LGBTQ+ community
47
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Social work professionals tend to be positioned as ____ and _____

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Gatekeepers and distributors

48
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Being gay used to be considered what crime?

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sex offerender

49
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Power balances between service providers and users whereas clients are considered experts in their own lives an interest and social workers act as partners facilitators

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Narrative approach

50
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Many LGBTIA+ have not come out in their workplace because…

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all of the above

51
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Marxist theory outlines social class as a _____ and Weberian theory outlines social class as a ____

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  • class-based inequalities reflected people’s relationship to the means of production (owner versus workers) REALITY
  • emphasized how family background shaped people’s lives and life chances by improving their market situation
    (placement in the economy).
    CONSTRUCT
52
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McCall (2005) has outlined three approaches to understanding the functioning of intersectionality

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  • anti-categorical
  • intra-categorical complexity
  • inter-categorical complexity
53
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February 5th 1980 one 150 people were charged with operating a bathhouse house after police created a backup

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Toronto bathhouse riots of the Gay Liberation

54
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What challenges oppress older adults’ wellbeing etc

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housing, unemployment, language, poverty, financial challenges, deteriorating personal relationships and social isolation

55
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Which of the following is not transformative social work practice is based on 4 principles

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  1. to recognize and politicize difference as a terrain of political struggle for social justice
  2. the understanding of difference should not simply serve as a conceptual and analytic function for explaining. how dividing, othering, and excluding oppression works
  3. to recognize that among people belonging to the same social category there are differences in values and social positions in other social dimensions
  4. to engage people of difference positions in a dialogue ti achieve an intersubjective outcome - that is, a share understanding
56
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Who coined the term intersectionality to see how race and gender intersect

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Kimberly Crenshaw

57
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Which model of disability says the disability is unwanted

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Medical

58
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____ is an Indigenous ceremony….

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Sweat Lodge

59
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Which of the following is no true about culture?

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culture is static (false)

60
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What are some components of non-verbal communication?

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tone of voice, expression, gestures, body position

61
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Today racism and colonialism manifests in the following ways

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  • racism manifest based on culture instead of based on skin tone
  • anti-colonialism is headed by Indigenous peoples
62
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4 Key Impacts of Immigration on Families

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  1. the acculturation gap between parents and their children
  2. the difference in values between the host and home cultures
  3. the resulting concerns about separation of the family
  4. intergenerational conflict
63
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What are the 3 models of community organization practice (macro SW)

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  1. Locality/Community Development (assume people in power and community will work together for change)
  2. Social Planning/Policy (assumes facts and analysis can resolve problems)
  3. Social Action (assumes disadvantaged groups must demand support from people in power)
64
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Collaborative, Campaign, and Contest Strategies

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Collaborative - seeks negotiation and agreed action
Campaign - seeks to persuade others through promotion and education
Contest - confronts power-based decision-making organizations to pressure change and response