SOCWORK 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 4 - Post-structuralism, Structural level, Intersectionality

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1BB3
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Another definition: by the view of critical social workers and researchers, social work should be a practice with an ambition to challenge inequality, marginalization, and oppression at a structural level by using structural understandings of social problems. Intersectionality: might be explained as an analytical ambition to explore gender, sexuality, class, and race as complex, intertwined, and mutual reinforcing categories of oppression and social structures, can be advantages or disadvantages. Intersectionality: for example, intersectionality has been described as a theory, a method, a perspective, a concept, and a framework. In social work, intersectionality has been used as an analytical approach during recent years and it has been a way to understand both complex identities and how social stru(cid:272)tures affe(cid:272)t people"s living conditions. Critical reflection allows us to see: elementary power relations with respect to marginalization, oppression, and injustice, power relations tend to be habitual and taken for granted, which makes them particularly hard to make visible and keep in focus.