Hutchinson Flashcards
What is the purpose of the social work profession according to Hutchison?
to promote human and community well-being
What year was the CSWE formed?
1952
When was the NASW formed?
1955
At what event was it argued that “knowledge and understanding of human behavior is considered an indispensable base for social work education and for all social work activity”?
the 1952 meeting of the American Association of Schools of Social Work
Who linked the person-in-environment perspective on human behavior to the working definition of social work in 1958?
Harriet Bartlett
What looks at how biological, psychological, and social factors act independently, cumulatively, and interactively to shape people’s lives from conception to death across generations?
Life Course Perspective
What does the Life Course Perspective (LCP) propose?
how biological, psychological, and social factors act independently, cumulatively, and interactively to shape people’s lives from conception to death across generations
What is a person’s “event history”?
the sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in a person’s life from birth to death
Note: One of the best ways to understand an individual, is to learn their event history. You can also look at how their life has intertwined with family members’, and you can explore how culture and social institutions shape their lives.
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The Life Course Perspective gives special emphasis to which social arena for an individual’s world experience?
Family
Which sociologist wrote foundational work on the LCP after analyzing three longitudinal studies in the early 1960’s?
Glen Elder Jr.
What did Glen Elder Jr. call for when analyzing the LCP in the early 1960’s?
developmental theory and research that looked at the influence of historical forces on family, education, and work roles
When social history emerged as a serious field around the sixties and seventies, social historians were particularly interested in what?
Retrieving the experiences of people from their own vantage point, rather than telling the historical story from the vantage point of wealthy and powerful persons
Recently, LCP researchers have used what kind of research approaches to tell stories of members of racialized and other marginalized groups?
Narrative Research Approaches
This looks at the universal, predictable events that typically occur in people’s lives during different life stages
Developmental Psychology
This has been proposed as a way to understand how gender norms and gender discrimination affect the interlocking trajectories of women’s lives
Feminist Life Course Theory
This has been proposed as a way to understand the impact of racism and its changing forms over historical time and across the life course
Critical Race Life Perspective
A group of persons born during the same time period who experience particular social changed within a given culture in the same sequence and at the same approximate age is called what?
cohort
A change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior roles and statuses is called what?
Transition
Relatively stable long-term processes and patterns of events involving multiple transitions is called what?
Trajectory
A significant occurrence in a person’s life that may produce serious and long-lasting effects is called what?
Life Event
A life event or transition that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory is called what?
A turning point
How is a Generation different from a Cohort?
Generation usually refers to about 20 years, whereas a cohort may be shorter. LCP scholars suggest that a a birth cohort only becomes a generation when it develops some shared sense of its social history and a shared identity.
In public health research, what is cohort used to mean?
A group of people with similar health conditions who are followed over time to understand the life course of a disease state
