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SWP 335 EXAM Flashcards

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Examples of Power (Martinez)

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Patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism

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Politics, Personal, and Social Work (Martinez)

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  • The personal is political.
  • If we do not tackle these major issues from social work with a political perspective, we may blame the service users with whom we interact.
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Power (Martinez)

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  • Power is understood as something which anyone could take on and appropriate. Ex. “to take power”, or “to be empowered”.
  • Power is not a thing but a social relationship.
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What is the social order (construction (4) & what it is..web) (Martinez)

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  • Historic, collective, political and controversial construction.

It involves a complex web of processes where; power, exploitation and domination are key to these processes.

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Main idea of SW; social order (Martinez)

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The main idea of social work is precisely to transform reality, to change the social order.

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Empowerment and Power; groupings of people (Fook) (3 points)

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  • People do not fit into one grouping (powerful vs. powerless); some may belong to both groups
  • Powerless groups may not all agree on the form of their empowerment.
  • The very same experience can be empowering for some and disempowering for others.
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5 Problems and Conceptions of Power and Empowerment which stem from modernist perspectives (Fook)

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  1. Sees power as something that can be transferred, trade or given
  2. Splits power into two oppositional groups

(eg. the powerful and the powerless - assuming that they are two mutually exclusive groups.)

  1. idea that equality = sameness
  2. Doesnt account for uncertainty, contradictions and difference.
  3. Thinks giving power is empowering (it isnt)
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4 Postmodernist Perspectives on Power Relations/Structures & Empowerment (think de/reconstruct, change) (Fook)

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  1. Wants to deconsruct situations involving how power relations and structures are created and supported. 2. Reconstruct them in ways that are empowering for everyone.
  2. Change system of power relations and structures so they empower all.
  3. Allowing for difference
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White women tears (3 points) (Allen, W.S)

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  • Gendered and racialized emotional response due to white femininity
  • When white women shed these tears, it recentres them as well-intentioned, deserving of comfort and free from blame and accountability.
  • Invalidates and endangers racialized people.
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White settler culture (Allen, W.S)

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Whiteness, white femininity and colonial control become imprinted and performed through white women’s bodies which pass down and sustain the white settler status quo from the past into the present.
(Eg. Cultural scripts, men head of house/nation, innocent/kind act, middle-class straight marriage, furthers white domestication of the home and white “civilizing” and “saving” in larger society)

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Emotional response (2 parts, cause and results) ( Allen, W.S)

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  • White women tears correlate to an emotional response associated with the constructed innocence and helplessness
  • Emotional response results in racialized people’s voices and experiences not being recognized and
    respected, to being heavily policed, fired, arrested, detained and even killed.
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Land back (Yellow Institute)

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The project of Land Back is about reclaiming Indigenous land: breathing life into rights and responsibilities breaks down the current status of land dispossession in Canada.

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Red Paper (Yellow Institute)

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About Indigenous consent;

how Canada dispossesses Indigenous peoples from the land, and what communities are doing to get it back.

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Land alienation (Yellow Institute) (4 points)

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  • land used, sold, or transferred from one entity to another (in property law)
  • It is often land transferred to 3rd parties by the Crown.
  • Canadian law defines this transfer as voluntary (it isn’t).
  • Land alienation is a major economic driver of the Canadian economy. Ex. Man camps, Crown land & Mining claims.
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Colonial processes (Yellow Institute)

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Colonial society, processes and ‘norms’ of are passed down and enforced.

Ex. Men dominating society; Indigenous men have been vaulted into positions of authority.
(Eg. The Indian Act Chief and Council system and larger groups such as tribal councils, provincial
territorial organizations and national organizations have historically, and continue to be, dominated by men.)

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Intersectionality as a tool to: (3 points) (Symington, A.)

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Intersectionality is a tool for studying and understanding;

  • the way identities intersect.
  • how these intersections contribute to oppression and/or privilege.
  • Can also be a tool for advocacy, program planning, and research.
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Targeted (Symington, A.)

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  • Racialized women are targeted more due to the intersection of their racialized identity and gender.
  • Will change based on varying social locations

(eg. An African American professor at a university faces discrimination in the USA but it will not compare to a poor African American woman working as a maid/ cleaner)

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examples of Intersectional approaches (2 points, + info) (Symington, A.)

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  • no categories
  • bottom-up approach to research, analysis and planning
  • must be used and applied correctly to be empowering (eg. social justice paradigm)
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Coping (3 strategies + findings) (Logie + Others)

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Coping strategies include;

  • resilience (micro)
  • social networks and support groups (meso)
  • challenging stigma (macro).

The findings suggested that micro, meso, and macro-level factors present barriers to health, well-being, & opportunities for coping.

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ecological systems theory: (Logie + Others)

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Argues that the environment you grow up in affects every facet of your life.

Looks at someone AND their environment

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Intersections of stigma, oppressions, and identity (Logie + Others)

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Marginalized social identities and stigma (sexism, racism, and homo/transphobia) overlap.

Forming multiple intersecting levels of stigma and discrimination

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Data collection reflected.. (Logie + Others)

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Reflected a lack of services geared for Latina, Asian, and South Asian HIV-positive women.

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Discourse (Fook)

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Discourse(s) are the sets of language practices that shape our thoughts, actions and identities.

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Social world: (Fook)*think web

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Encompasses the interconnected web of social structures, institutions, cultural norms, values, frameworks, power dynamics economic systems, and political landscapes that shape people’s lives and society.

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Ideology (beliefs we hold) (fook): pinpointing

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Concept for pinpointing how the beliefs we hold, whether they be T or F can also serve social functions. (i.e. power).

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3 Level of Ideology (behaviours and practices) (fook)

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PRACTICAL: specific behaviours and practices which arise from beliefs.

THEORETICAL: ideas or actions that explain or justify the behaviours or practices.

INSTITUTIONAL: systematic organization of these the behaviours and practices which maintain them.

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Language (Fook, Healy & Mulholland) (3 points | think labels and discourse)

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  • Language is vital in discourse; shaping our perceptions, understanding, and actions.
  • Chosen labels dictate emphasis, importance, recognition, inclusion, or silence.
  • Labels often carry emotions, and assumptions; sometimes unspoken or unquestioned, implying diverse categories with implicit (hinting at but not directly saying) levels.
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Narrative (linked to? events?)(fook)

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Linked to language and discourse;

has cause and effect of events that happened.

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Stigma & Stigmatization (Parker & Aggelton)

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[Stigma as “significantly discrediting attribute”, thought of something as inside an individual]. Society serves to reduce the person who possesses it.

[Stigmatization— experiencing actual discrimination] due to someone’s/society’s action(s) of disapproval/ disgrace.

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Discourse analysis & activist social work practice (2 parts, involves examining.. serves as a..) (Healy & Mulholland)

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  • Involves examining the language and communication used within organizations, theories, practices, and by service users to understand and address social issues.
  • Discourse analysis [serves as a tool to deconstruct and critique language that preserve injustice.]
  • common research model; feminist, radical, structural and action.
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The 3 Social Superstructures (Healy & Mulholland)

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  • local power
  • local change
  • local identity
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Discourse analysis can: (Healy & Mulholland)* think enchance.. by?

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Discourse analysis: can enhance progressive social work by revealing how the language practices we use (as social workers, service users, organizations, theorists) to express our understanding of social work also shape the kinds of practices that occur

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Conversation analysis (Healy & Mulholland) (2 points + principles)- think organization

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  • Conversation analysis is concerned with the organization of talk.
  • It is based on the assumption that talk is organized.
  • Principles; communicative talk is a social action, communicative talk is organized and locally managed by its participants.
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Research aims to: (Samuels-W, K.)

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Research aims to:

Counter Canada’s international status as a multicultural ‘paradise’ and demonstrate how the police preserve the marginalized status of racialized (Black and Indigenous) youth/individuals through criminalization.

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Methodology; Use of CRM n Story to highlight? (2 parts) (Samuels-W, K.)

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Using the critical race methodology of counter-storytelling (used in court hearings);

To highlight the expierences of Black and Indigenous youth with police/criminal system.

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Data fails to acknowledge (over-rep) (Samuels-W, K.)

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Data fails to acknowledge the structures (Racism, Class, White supremacy, Police, Government(laws), etc.)
That explain the over-representation of Indigenous and Black peoples in the criminal justice system.

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Over-Policing & Over-Representation (Samuels-W, K.)

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Black and Indigenous youth in the sample perceive the surveillance of their communities as contributing to the over-representation of them in the criminal justice system.

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Dehumanization (James) (4 points)

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  • Is a form of racism.
  • Seen through obvious act of removal/exclusion.
  • Emotional violence, in the form of microaggressions. (can overlap with other types of racism. )
  • Being treated as less than.
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Exoticization (James) (4 points)

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  • Form of racism.
  • Objectification.
  • Being constructed as “Other”.
  • People perpetuate this form of racism as a form of “inquiry”.
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Racism and Class (James)

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Black and Indigenous peoples are more likely to live in socially disadvantaged communities

including; access to adequate housing, education, job opportunities and healthcare.

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Canada’s approach on racism (James)

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Attempts to take a ‘colourblind’ approach, where we attempt to welcome everyone in an equal way to create a “multicultural paradise”.

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Postcolonialism (Zhao) (what it is + what it looks like today [3])

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A theoretical approach that is concerned with the lasting impact of colonization.

  • Canada’s maintaince of an unequal society.
  • Shows ongoing colonization, marginalization of Indigenous populations.
  • Enforces cultural colonization in immigration procedures.
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Anti-Asian racism roots, events (Zhao) (2 points)

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  • Rooted in the Canadian white colonial past
  • Emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and became more rampant.
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Cisnormativity (Pyne) (2 points)

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  • Exposing cis-privilege
  • The assumption that everyone identifies as the gender they were assigned at birth, and those who do not are considered “abnormal”.
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Growth of Queer/Trans Approaches (Pyne) (context + 3 points)

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Critical and AO approaches to social work and an accelerating North American trans movement influenced social workers to;

  • Challenge the ab-normalization of the trans experience
  • Interupt transphobic discrimination
  • Call for social workers to become allies by transforming their organizations.
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Service example showed.. (Pyne)

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Showed that there is a need for genderqueer (don’t fit into M or F role) shelter services, safer shelter services for trans people (specifally trans men).

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Violence against women (Hollander)

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Is a urgent social problem

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Emphasizing Women’s Victimization: (Hollander) (3 points)R,P,E

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Emphasizing women’s victimization;

  • REINFORCES women as vulnerable, weak, and fragile.
  • PROVIDES only a partial view of the reality of violence in women’s lives
  • ERASES how women themselves have used violence, either to protect themselves or to control others.
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Women based Violence & Resistance (Hollander) (3 points)

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Physical resistance usually doesn’t increase the risk of additional physical injury

  • May also facilitate positive psychological consequences.
  • Cultural beliefs that women are vulnerable have made this successful resistance invisible.
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Impression Management (Smith)

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Includes practices that divert attention in order to camouflage resistance, while offering protection to workers who feel vulnerable..

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Hidden and Transitory Coalitions are: (Smith)

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The efforts to build supports and networks within environments that are unwelcoming or potentially hostile to measures striving for equity.

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Stealth Practice (Smith) (2 points)

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  • [“Stealth social work practices” describes counter-activities that under the radar ]of managerial surveillance.
  • Used in AOP by self-reflection, empowerment, and working in partnership.
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3 New Forms of Resistance in the Restructured Social Work Agency (Smith)

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  1. stealth social work
  2. Impression managment
  3. hidden and transitory coalitions
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Neoliberal Perspective/ Objectives; Restructing Resistance within SW (Smith)(3 points)

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  • Restructuring is an expansion of a political project called neoliberalism,
    which seeks to expand capitalist markets on a global scale.
  • This approach aims to handle social issues by depoliticizing, privatizing, and personalizing them.
  • Shuts down many options for disagreement and AOP interventions.
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Oppositional Thinking is/ does; (Smith) (3 points)

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  • is the act of opposing or resisting;
  • works to erode confidence
  • Reduces the potential for transitory coalitions
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Triangle program (Solomon) (3 points)

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  • Transition program where kids had to leave school due to their sexual identity
  • Program allowed them all to get some credits while the facilitators transitioned them to other schools.
  • The triangle program was in the basement of a church so it was not accessible.

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