Social Work, Human Rights, and Justice

Question 1

What provide normative standard framework, present ways for social workers to ethically/morally practice?

Answer 1

Human rights

Question 2

What reflects what we believe the world should look like?

Answer 2

Normative Standards

Question 3

What do we hope to achieve striving to attend to normative standards?

Answer 3

Justice:

3 types

environmental
economic
social

Question 4

Does the human rights perspective acknowledge individuals are born to specific cultures?

Answer 4

Yes, it does

Question 5

Are cultures diverse?

Answer 5

YES

Question 6

Is culture static?

Answer 6

NO

Question 7

TRUE OR FALSE: So culture constantly changing, pluralistic, & always on the move means that it’s something that is not constant but that we have to assess as we go on because it’s constantly changing.

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

How has society organized itself; gives order to their society, & what’s important?

Answer 8

Social Hierarchy

Question 9

TRUE OR FALSE: Gender is an area where human rights + social work practice play out - what we consider perhaps appropriate roles for men, women.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

TRUE OR FALSE: Gender is an area where human rights + social work practice play out - what we consider perhaps appropriate roles for men, women.

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

True or false: a key thing in social work practice from human rights perspective is to allow ourselves to appreciate different viewpoints + allow these viewpoints to factor into decision-making process, very much moving away from right and wrong but giving consideration to other viewpoints.

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

TRUE OR FALSE: the way humans are born, live & die, & rituals associated in lifetime give meaning to lives & how they perceive social situations + what might be important or unimportant in their lives.

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

True or false: If we remove someone’s cultural heritage or deny them their cultural heritage, we end up denying them the legitimacy of their identity.

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

True or false: gender is thought of differently (uniquely) across the globe.

Answer 14

TRUE

Question 15

True or false: the role of males and females is the same across cultures.

Answer 15

FALSE. Roles vary across cultures.

Question 16

What grounds social position & hierarchy, access to resources, participation in society & stereotype roles for men/women?

Answer 16

Gender ideology

Question 17

In countries around the world, hierarchy grants males land holdings, inheritance, skills, productive employment & associated status. True or false?

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or false: women receive poor nutrition + med care, inferior education, suffer violence, denied life (female infanticide).

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What does the human rights’ perspectives acknowledge?

Answer 19

People are born into SDP (specific, diverse, powerful) cultures and values

Question 20

Why do social worker workers need to carefully analyze each context working on own merits?

Answer 20

Because of implications:

CH
Cultural and human rights

Question 21

While recognizing + respecting significance of person or group’s culture is important to social work, what does it induce?

Answer 21

Dilemma of ethics changing from one context to another

Question 22

While respecting and protecting individual or group what do social workers respect?

Answer 22

VEM

• Values
• Ethics
• Morals of people’s culture

Question 23

What is based on international human rights conventions + ethical codes? How do we incorporate this into sw practice?

Answer 23

I feel so wrong:
-IFSW

I am so sad workaholic:
-IASSW ethics statement

Question 24

According to what, human rights shows social workers a way to practice ethically or morally if human rights used as reference point for what morality in sw practice might be?

Answer 24

-Ife

Question 25

True or false:

Human rights provide a framework of normative standards, what we should be.

In order to strive for normative standards as social workers, we INTEND to bring SOCIAL, ECONOMIC & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Answer 25

SEE:

True

Question 26

TRUE OR FALSE:

The UN concept of human rights is that ONE’S CULTURE is PRECIOUS + CENTRAL to ONE’S IDENTITY.

DENYING OR REMOVING ONE’S CULTURE denies IDENTITY LEGITIMACY

Answer 26

TRUE

Question 27

TRUE OR FALSE:

The IASSW + IFSW ethical standards and principles stress that CULTURE MUST NEVER BE USED AS AN EXCUSE TO COMMIT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OR DEPRIVE CERTAIN GROUPS of their rights in defense of MAINTAINING TRADITIONAL VALUES

Answer 27

TRUE