SCWK2006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Misogyny, White Privilege, Male Privilege
10 May 2018
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SCWK2006- Research Skills for Social Work
Lecture 1
Foundations of Social Work
• Practice wisdom/ knowledge
• Enact social change through addressing it on an individual level
• How we construct knowledge in social work
• Research expands what we know and how its known
• Values
• Values driven profession
• Equality
• Human rights
• Autonomy
• Justice
• Ethics
• Non-judgmental attitudes
• Theory
International Code of Social Work Ethics
• Code of ethics defined by AAS
• 4.1 Human Rights and Human Dignity
• Enshrined in global and national code of ethics
• Respect for the inherent worth and dignity of all people and the rights that follow
from this
• Respecting right to self-determination
• 4.2 Social Justice
• Affirmative action - System that supports minorities because community has been
historically marginalised
• Responsibility to promote social justice, in society generally and to people they work
with
• Challenging negative discrimination
• Recognising diversity
Oppression
• Combination of prejudice and privilege = oppression
o When a person or community is discriminated against or harmed because of their actual
or perceived affiliation with a certain group
• Examples: male privilege, white privilege
• Oppressed
• Disadvantaged by
• Binary
• Border identities
• Don’t fit in either categories
Types of Oppression
• External
• Members from dominant categories exercising oppression to marginalised groups
• Misogyny, homophobia
• Internal
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