SOCWORK 1AA3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Neoliberalism, Welfare State, Social Work

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1AA3
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Socio-political context context? an individuals social and physical. Globalization: term that describes ways and impacts of countries and people interacting and integrating. The role of the state is to create and preserve and institutional framework appropriate to such practices (harvey 2005) Colonialism: a policy, a set of policies to achieve control over a minority group or culture. Unfair treatment based on attitudes and beliefs. Community development efforts tend to be influences by the prevailing political-economic context. The social context intersects with the various models of help which impacts those defined as needing help based on their identity. Our understanding of the world, (events, objects) is made (or constructed) in the interaction between each other primarily through language. We take critical lens to the taken for granted understanding of the world. We take a critical reflective lens to ourselves. We are cautious about what we are observing.