Social Work, Human Rights, and Justice Flashcards
What provide normative standard framework, present ways for social workers to ethically/morally practice?
Human rights
What reflects what we believe the world should look like?
Normative Standards
What do we hope to achieve striving to attend to normative standards?
Justice:
3 types
environmental
economic
social
Does the human rights perspective acknowledge individuals are born to specific cultures?
Yes, it does
Are cultures diverse?
YES
Is culture static?
NO
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.
TRUE
How has society organized itself; gives order to their society, & what’s important?
Social Hierarchy
TRUE OR FALSE: Gender is an area where human rights + social work practice play out - what we consider perhaps appropriate roles for men, women.
True
TRUE OR FALSE: Gender is an area where human rights + social work practice play out - what we consider perhaps appropriate roles for men, women.
TRUE
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.
TRUE
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.
TRUE
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.
TRUE
True or false: gender is thought of differently (uniquely) across the globe.
TRUE
True or false: the role of males and females is the same across cultures.
FALSE. Roles vary across cultures.
What grounds social position & hierarchy, access to resources, participation in society & stereotype roles for men/women?
Gender ideology
In countries around the world, hierarchy grants males land holdings, inheritance, skills, productive employment & associated status. True or false?
True
True or false: women receive poor nutrition + med care, inferior education, suffer violence, denied life (female infanticide).
True
What does the human rights’ perspectives acknowledge?
People are born into SDP (specific, diverse, powerful) cultures and values
Why do social worker workers need to carefully analyze each context working on own merits?
Because of implications:
CH
Cultural and human rights
While recognizing + respecting significance of person or group’s culture is important to social work, what does it induce?
Dilemma of ethics changing from one context to another
While respecting and protecting individual or group what do social workers respect?
VEM
- Values
- Ethics
- Morals of people’s culture
What is based on international human rights conventions + ethical codes? How do we incorporate this into sw practice?
I feel so wrong:
-IFSW
I am so sad workaholic:
-IASSW ethics statement
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?
-Ife
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
SEE:
True
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
TRUE
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
TRUE
