SWP 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Class Discrimination, Alternative School, Afrocentrism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 301
• Professor: Shane Young

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Lecture 2 revisiting anti-oppression, anti-racism and anti-block racism. Trends influencing social work: the impact of trauma, mental health/substance abuse parity, evidence-based practice, social work with older adults, school violence and bullying, childre(cid:374)(cid:859)s me(cid:374)tal health, economic recession, web-based social work education, social media, globalization. Distinguish between personal prejudice and personal acts versus systemic and institutional. Combating racism: tart (cid:449)ith the u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g that ra(cid:272)is(cid:373) is (cid:862)hard-(cid:449)ired(cid:863) i(cid:374)to our so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) a(cid:374)d institutions. It is like the electric wires in the walls, or the plumbing, or the air and heat ductwork. Lecture 2 revisiting anti-oppression, anti-racism and anti-block racism: hierarchy (there would certainly be other hierarchies, but not the extend they exist. ) This has lots of spillover effects: unity & cohesiveness are certainly undermined, diversity and community are also undermined, privilege (some aspects of anglo/euro culture are definitely good, after all the. Constitution was born out of that culture: violence is a continuum. Bias in research: research funding needs to be increased.