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Elements of traditional perspectives of families

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  • child centered
  • chronological
  • use structure to define family
  • tend to pathologize and exclude many other families
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categories of human rights

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  • human dignity
  • civil and political rights
  • economic and social rights
  • solidarity rights
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characteristics of alternative perspectives on families?

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  • inclusive
  • validating
  • flexible and dynamic
  • use relationship to define family
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three alternate family types

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  1. family of origin (bio)
  2. family of procreation (marriage or childbearing)
  3. family of choice
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types of organizations

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  • private for-profit
  • private not-for-profit (NGOs)
  • non-governmental (voluntary or civil sector)
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what is workplace resistance (Baines)

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a concept to explore front line practice in restructuring the workplace under various social elements

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the four types of capital

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  1. financial: money or property available for investment
  2. human: individual skills, knowledge, experience, creativity and motivation
  3. social: resources stored in relationships
  4. cultural: accumulation of cultural knowledge, skills and abilities
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three primary functions of democratic leadership behaviour

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  1. distributing responsibility
  2. empowerment
  3. aiding deliberation
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organizational culture vs. organizational climate

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culture: beliefs, values, norms, routines and traditions that are dependent on history and difficult to change
climate: perceptions and attitudes held by people with specific culture that can be influenced by what an organization does

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mission statement vs. vision statement

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mission: outlines an organizations purpose and what it does
vision: what an organization expects their mission will achieve

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gemeinschaft vs. gesellschaft

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gemeinschaft: ways of relatings based on shared tradition s, culture or way of life and a sense of mutual responsibility
gesellschaft: ways of relating based on contract-like exchange in which one member does something for another in order for that person to return the favour in goods, services, or money

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what are the three traditional styles of leadership?

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  • democratic
  • autocratic
  • laissez-fair
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three types of membership people have in a group?

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  • full/formal psychological
  • marginal membership
  • aspiring membership
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critical self reflection

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  • process of analyzing one’s own biases, perspectives and privileges
  • important to be self critical so that we can understand different people, practices, lifestyles, etc.
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cultural capital

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  • sense of group consciousness and collective identity that serves as a resource aimed at the advancement of an entire group
  • must be inherited or gained through formal schooling
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social capital

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  • to describe resources that are neither traditional capital

- helps understand poverty, community development, helps get social support, help cope with everyday

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ascribed status

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permanent and based on characteristics or conditions not controlled by the individual (e.g., race)

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differential vulnerability

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theoretical explanation for the social status difference in the effects of exposure to social stressors

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impairment vs. disability

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impairment: actual health condition
disability: physical and social barriers

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what is a paradigm?

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  • worldview/general perspective
  • cultural patterns of group life
  • constellation of beliefs, values, techniques
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private for-profit organizations

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  • businesses and corporations with the primary goal of making a profit
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governmental organizations

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  • comprise the public sector
  • includes local, state, national and international governmental organizations
  • e.g., public health, education and human services
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private not-for-profit organizations (NGOs)

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  • non governmental
  • make up the voluntary or civil sector
  • include wide range of services funded by private citizens, fundraising, privately funded foundations
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hawthorne effect

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workers motivated to produce economic rewards and by informal factors

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consensus vs. bureaucratic organizations

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consensus: method of community organizing that focuses on finding and developing areas of mutual self-interest
bureaucratic: be a government agency or commercial business with a heavily enforced chain of command and tightly regulated operating process

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what is community?

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complex and can mean a variety of definitions ranging from individuals, groups, organizations and families, shared interests, regular interaction

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non-place community

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community in which attachment to a specific place or geographic territory is absent and not considered essential for a community to exist, e.g., LGTBQ+

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intentional community

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community designed and planned around a social ideal or collective values and interests, often involves shared resources and responsibilities

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three community development approaches

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  • smart growth
  • new urbanism
  • ecological cities
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basic principles of sustainability

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  • job-housing balance
  • spacial integration of employment and transportation
  • mixed land use
  • use of locally produced clean and renewable energy sources
  • energy and source
  • efficient building and site design
  • pedestrian access
  • housing affordability, diversity
  • higher density residential development
  • protections of natural and bio functions
  • resident involvement and empowerment
  • social space
  • sense of place
  • inter-modal transportation connectivity
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community building principles

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  • integrate community development and human service stages
  • forge partnerships through collaboration
  • build on community strengths
  • start from local conditions
  • foster broad community participation
  • require racial equity
  • value cultural strengths
  • support families and children
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adaptive strategies

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observable social behavioural cultural patterns that promote the survival and well-being of the community, families and individual members

defines family as a variety of systems come together and interact with one another

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blended family

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household containing a child who is biologically related to only one of the adults

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define a group

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small face to face collection of persons who interact to accomplish some purpose

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three goals human service agencies pursue

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  • social control goals
  • rehabilitation goals
  • goal displacement
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five functions necessary to create a functioning community

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  • local participation in production and consumption of goods
  • socialization and passing of knowledge
  • social participation in organization
  • social control to influence others
  • mutual support for others in times of need
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what is familiness?

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traditional functions and responsibilities assigned by societies to families

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what is kinship care?

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full-time nurturing and protection of children who must be separated from their parent by relatives, step parents, etc.

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ethnic stratification

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social status or position based on race, religion or nationality

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what is biculturalism?

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ability to function in two worlds or cultural contexts

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what is formal kinship?

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legal arrangement in which the child welfare agency has custody of a child being placed with relatives

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what is informal kinship?

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when the child welfare agency facilitates the placement of a child but does not seek custody

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what is hierarchy?

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any system in which then distribution of power, privilege and authority are both systematic and unequal

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what is plutocracy?

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defined as a government rules exclusively by and for the benefit of a wealthy elite

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what is a common nuclear family?

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husband as breadwinner, wife as homemake, their offspring all living in a residence apart from their other relatives

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what is a facilitator?

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someone with multiple roles and responsibilities in the group

leader, mediator, conflict manager, or content expert

focused on task/product and the process/relationship dimension

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what is socialization?

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process of teaching new members the rules by which the larger group or society operates

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pre-modern/pre-positivism social work

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  • centrality of church/sacred basis of determining truth and knowledge; feudal economy; history as divinely ordered
  • humanism, scholasticism, protestantism
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modernism/positivism social work

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  • centrality in secular humanism, individual reason and science in determining truth
  • the industrial age, capitalism and bureaucracy as bases of economic life
  • history as linear in the direction of constant progress driven by human rationality and science
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postmodernism social work

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  • existing/traditional knowledge creation processes intensely questioned
  • emphasis on multiple ways of knowing through processes that are not hierarchical
  • feminist influenced and participatory
  • economy based on info, technology and global capitalism
    view of history as nonlinear, cyclical, continually rewritten
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characteristics of traditional paradigms

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  • positivistic, scientific, objective, quantitative
  • masculinity and patriarchy
  • separate, impersonal and competitive
  • privilege
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characteristics of alternative paradigms

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  • interpretive, intuitive, subjective, qualitative
  • feminisms
  • diversity
  • interrelatedness
  • oppressions
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what is the more recent version of the kinsey sexuality scale?

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5 categories:

  • heterosexuxal
  • mostly heterosexual
  • bisexual
  • mostly gay/lesbian
  • gay/lesbian
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what are the different intelligences (multiple intelligence)?

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  • linguistic
  • logial-mathematical
  • spatial
  • musical
  • interpersonal
  • interpersonal
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legal custody vs. physical custody (grandparents as parents)

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legal: right to authority of a parent, to make decisions concerning the child’s upbringing
physical: right to physical possession of the child

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three possible grandparent as parent roles

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  1. custodial grandparents: legal relationship with the grandchild
  2. day-care grandparents: not casual babysitters, provide grandchildren with daily care for extended periods
  3. living-with grandparents: assume parenting role that falls between that of custodial and day-care
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product vs. process in groups

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product = groups focus on the outcomes

process = primary concern is the internal group processes that occur

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roles vs. norms in groups

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roles: expectations about what is appropriate behaviour for persons in particular positions
norms: groups common beliefs regarding appropriate behaviour for members

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conformity and deviance in groups

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conformity: bringing one’s behaviours into alignment with a group’s expectations
deviance: violation of norms or rules of behaviour

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idiosyncrasy credit

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potential for individuals to behaviourally deviate from group norms without being sanctioned

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product-focused roles

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  • initiator: propose tasks/goals
  • info seeker: requests facts and seek relevant info about group concern
  • info giver: offer info about group concern
  • clarifier/elaborator: interpret and reflect back to ideas and suggestions
  • summarizer: pull together related ideas
  • consensus tester: checks with group periodically to see how much agreement there is to find out how close the group is to reaching a concensus
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types of groups

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  • consciousness-raising groups
  • treatment groups
  • social action groups
  • network and support groups
  • skill groups
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three things for a group to be effective

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  • goal achievement
  • maintenance of good working relationships among members
  • adaptation to changing environmental conditions that allow effectiveness to be maintained
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the “iron law of oligarchy”

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organizations serve the needs of only an elite few who gain control of the organizations

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non-place community

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community in which attachment to a specific place of geographic territory is absent and not considered essential for the community to exist

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