SWP 638 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Capital, Neoliberalism, Governmentality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 638
• Professor: Peter Ferentzy

Document Summary

Directly involves community members in all aspects of the research process. Meant to represent the needs of the community for the purpose for creating change, the community becomes a unit and an identity in itself when carrying out the research. Demonstrate a commitment to involving community in their funding applications. Recognizing the community as a unity which shared a sense of identification and emotional connection to other members. Thoughts on the process of differentiating between the affiliated and marginalized. Data represents community needs increase local capacity building and empowerment challenging traditional research with more direct involvement with partners outside of academia. Growing number of cbpr projects adopting peer research approach. How power plays a role in our daily actions and attitudes. Neoliberalism finding and how it plays into the concept of peer research. A political rationality that offers new modes of relations between the governors and the governed" and extends economic analysis into a theory of human capital.