Macro Terms

Question 1

In psychosocial assessment, the individual’s degree of dependability and consistency; in social research, the dependability and consistency of scores on a test that is repeated over time with the same group.

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Reliability

Question 2

The prejudgment and negative treatment of people based on identifiable characteristics such as race, gender, religion, or ethnicity.

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Discrimination

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Stereotyping and generalizing about people, usually negative, because of their genetic background; an ideology that a group’s genetic physical characteristics are linked in a direct causal way to psychological, intellectual, or behavioral traits, and these distinguish superior and inferior groups.

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Racism

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A combination of elements with mutual reciprocity and identifiable boundaries that form a complex or unitary whole; may be physical and mechanical, living and social, or a combination of these.

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Systems

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Actions taken to keep conditions known to result in disease or social problems from occurring.

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Primary Prevention

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An alliance of individuals and ideological groups to achieve a specific goal or address a single issue or social problem ; The group is expected to disband once the goals are reached.

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Ad Hoc Agency/Coalition

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A problem-solving tool often used in social welfare planning, administration, and community organization for assessing the degree of resistance or receptivity to a proposed change.

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Force Field Analysis (FFA)

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An Orientation or set of beliefs that holds that one’s culture, racial or ethnic group, or nationality is inherently superior to others.

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Ethnocentrism

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A diagram or graphic presentation often used by group workers to display how members of the group feel about one another and they tend to align themselves with some and against other members of the group or organization.

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Sociogram

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The activities of social workers to bring services and information about the availability of services to people in their home or usual environments.

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Outreach

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The customs, habits, skills, technology, arts, values, ideology, science, religion, and political behavior of a group of people in a specific time period.

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Culture

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The adoption of an individual or group to the social patterns, behaviors, and values of others.

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Acculturation

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A system of moral principles and perceptions about right versus wrong and the resulting philosophy of conduct that is practiced by an individual group.

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Ethics

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A situation that occurs when two or more moral values seem to be equally valid but contradictory and the individual is required to make the best possible choice from among them.

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Ethical Dilemma

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A belief about the supposed superiority or inferiority of individuals, groups, or nations based on their ethnic affiliations.

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Cultural Bias

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A pattern of antisocial behavior by people younger than age 18 (or 21 in some jurisdictions) that would be regarded as criminal in nature if committed by adults.

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Juvenile Delinquency

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An organizational plan, social policy, or legal doctrine that specifies how many or what proportion of people of an identified status will be included in an identified group; This may include people.

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Quota System

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A formal process of evaluating the type and amount of service offered and delivered to organizations to determine if those services are justified; This often occurs when funds for agencies are received from government bodies or other third party groups.

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Utilization Review

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Those individuals or groups who have greater probability of being harmed by specific social, environmental, or health problems that the population as whole.

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Vulnerable Population

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A criminal justice procedure that permits convicted law violators to leave a correctional facility or other institution to go to their jobs and return to the facility immediately after work.

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Work Release

Question 21

The view that public assistance and other social services are entitlements available to any of a nation’s citizens.

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Welfare Rights

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Persistent, intense, and unreasonable fear of strangers or foreign people.

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Xenophobia

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An organization or government’s explicit ruling that a specified intentional act will result in some sanction, including expulsion.

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Zero Tolerance Policies

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Privately funded and administered federated organizations, usually with chapters or recreational facilities in most communities with the purpose of helping young people achieve their developmental potentials.

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Youth Services Organizations

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The behaviors and personality characteristics that are attached to people because of their sex, often inaccurately.

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Gender Roles

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An opinion about an individual, group, or phenomenon that is developed without proof or systematic evidence; usually negative.

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Prejudice

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Championing the rights of individuals or communities through direct intervention or through empowerment; This is a basic obligation of the social work profession.

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Advocacy