[SOWK 2000] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (13 pages long)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 2000
• Professor: Patricia Mc Guire

Document Summary

Social theories: an effort to understand and explain the world within distinct worldviews. They look at the world as something they can change. Since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practice as natural and so. Insist on posing to those practices the most embarrassingly general and fundamental questions. Regarding them with a wondering estrangement which we adult have long forgotten. We all have taken for granted assumptions. These frame our worldview- the worldview which we have been socialized in. Learning diverse social theories requires us to step outside ourselves. Acts as a challenge to us to change the way we think. *theory should make us uncomfortable because it makes us look at things in a different light. Looking at ourselves and our world in different ways. Culture shock- anthropology term- sense of dislocation in an unfamiliar setting. A reflection in a mirror is an exact replica of what is in front of it.