SSW136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Marxism
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The importance of theory: explains and predicts behaviour a window to understanding practice, the choice of theory shapes the way practitioners and researchers collect and interpret evidence, locates social work in a particular social, historical, political context. What is a theory: originated from the greek word ( theoria , means a way of explaining something or a principle independent of the thing being explained, ex. if we take marxist theory to explain poverty in society. If minimum wage were to increase, prices of goods would increase and workers would lose their jobs: for us to understand this theory, we need to understand the degree of inequality in society. If you are poor, it is because you do not want to be involved in the process victim-blaming. If you want to understand the rich and poor, you have to look at society those who have access to power regarding how society should be run (who decides wages, break times, paid leave)
