SOCWORK 1AA3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Neoliberalism, Welfare State, Social Work
12 Oct 2018
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SOCWORK 1AA3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Week 2
Socio-political context
context? an individuals social and physical
Globalization: term that describes ways and impacts of countries and people interacting and
integrating
Neoliberalism: it is a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being
can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an
institutional framework characterized by strong private propenrty rights, free markers and free
trade. The role of the state is to create and preserve and institutional framework appropriate to
such practices (Harvey 2005)
Colonialism: a policy, a set of policies to achieve control over a minority group or culture.
Discrimination:
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unfair treatment based on attitudes
and beliefs
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anti-black racism
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structural & individual
Socio-political context (current)
Patriarchy
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Why
is Context Critical?
Defilippis, Fisher & Shragge 2010
-community development efforts tend to be influences by the prevailing political-economic
context. It is not however determinative.
The social context intersects with the various models of help which impacts those defined as
needing help based on their identity
Socially Constructed
What do you mean our understanding is socially constructed?
-our understanding of the world, (events, objects) is made (or constructed) in the interaction
between each other primarily through language.
We take critical lens to the taken for granted understanding of the world
We
take a critical reflective lens to ourselves
We
are cautious about what we are observing
Cultural
How we understand the world depends on the time period and the culture we live in
How we interact and understand the world depends on our identities
We
cannot assume one way of understanding is better than another.
sustained
People construct meaning by our interactions with each other
Shared versions of knowledge are constructed in every day exchanges
social
There are numerous possible social constructions of the world
Each construction brings with
it
different action from people
Helper and Helped: How do we already seem to know?
Burger and Luckmann
Institutionalization-process of embedding something as the norma in culture and or
organizations.
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Document Summary
Socio-political context context? an individuals social and physical. Globalization: term that describes ways and impacts of countries and people interacting and integrating. The role of the state is to create and preserve and institutional framework appropriate to such practices (harvey 2005) Colonialism: a policy, a set of policies to achieve control over a minority group or culture. Unfair treatment based on attitudes and beliefs. Community development efforts tend to be influences by the prevailing political-economic context. The social context intersects with the various models of help which impacts those defined as needing help based on their identity. Our understanding of the world, (events, objects) is made (or constructed) in the interaction between each other primarily through language. We take critical lens to the taken for granted understanding of the world. We take a critical reflective lens to ourselves. We are cautious about what we are observing.
