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Privilege as Social Workers

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*Clients areoften aware of workers’ higher status, privilege and differential power

*Powerdifferences can be an obstacle to communicating the issues clients need toaddress.

*Social workersmust be aware of their privilege and their “lens”

*As a socialworker, assume an attitude of not knowing and be willing to learn from yourclients

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CulturalSensitivity

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understandingthe diversity among clients and communities, and focusing on the cultural gapthat exists between service delivery systems and the clients it serves

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CulturalCompetence

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possession of the knowledge, values, and skillsnecessary to make services culturally relevant, thereby increasing theireffectiveness

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CulturallyGrounded Social Work practice

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the combination and utilization of culturalsensitivity and cultural competency in social work practice

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The Culturally Grounded Social Work approach:

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*Views clients asexperts and partners

*The socialworker assesses the context or environment for oppression in all its forms anddevelops a professional intervention accordingly.

*It is groundedin race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, social class, andability status

*Facilitates aprocess of awareness about culture and its protective factors.

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The Culturally Grounded Social Work approach:

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*Suggestsspecific attitudes and behaviors for generalist social work practice

*Advances theconcept of intersectionality – individuals form complex multidimensionalidentities

*Aims atgenerating change in partnership with communities

*Aims atimproving issues of equity, quality, and access to services from a socialjustice and distributive justice perspective.

*Culturallygrounded social work is realized through the acquisition of specific knowledge,the development of a set of attitudes, and the mastery and practice of certainbehaviors.

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Stereotypes

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Thebeliefs that individuals hold about members of a group based on generalizationsabout characteristics of all members of that group.

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Prejudice

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Negativebelief and/or attitude towards an entire group of

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Discrimination

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Negative action towards an entire group

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Intersectionality

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*The complexityof human experience where multiple identities interconnect.

*Individualsbelong to multiple systems of inequality based on race, ethnicity, gender,social class, sexual orientation, age, and ableism

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Matrixof Domination

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withinthe matrix individuals may experience disadvantage or privilege through thecombination of identities (Collins, 1998)

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Areas ofPrivilege/OppressionRace

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*Sociallyconstructed concept rather than a biological

*Emphasizesdifferences between humans based on perceived physical characteristics *Leads to ahierarchy of groups and to racism to perpetuate the privilege and theoppression of certain groups.

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Ethnicity

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*The culturaldistinctiveness of individuals

*Whowe are as people connected to ancestors, stories, rituals, beliefs, norms andtraditions

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Gender

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*A sociallyconstructed set of social and cultural expectations associated with the idea ofmale and female (binary)

*Challenged byindividuals born with ambiguous primary and secondary sex characteristics andby the transgender community

*An increasingnumber of people are refusing to self-identify or to be gendered.

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SexualOrientation

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*The way in whichpeople classified themselves and others sexuality and sexual attractiono *Categorizationsvary across cultures and times *The privilegeaccorded to a heterosexual sexual orientation is based on a belief system thatviews heterosexuality as superior and more natural than homosexuality.

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Religion

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*A fundamentalset of faith beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of personsin an organized fashion

*Religiousgroups can be loosely organized or very well structured (organized religion)and may influence the social norms, values and behaviors of their followers.

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Ableism

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*A form ofdiscrimination in which preference is shown to people who appear able-bodied *Many definitionsrely on ideas like “normal” people as opposed to those who are “abnormal,” whichraises the ire of activists

*Persons labeledas mentally or physically challenged are frequently victims of oppression

*Disabilitycan be mental or physical and visible or invisible.

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Social Class

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*Societiesthroughout history have been organized into social classes

*Evensocieties that undergo revolutions often merely substitute one social classsystem for another.

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Age

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*Our culturevalues the young over the old *Agediscrimination in employment is worse for women

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Theories onOppression

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*Used to explainthe causes of inequality and oppression

*Can be used tojustify privilege and oppression

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Social Darwinism

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* Only the strong survive *Supportscategorizing people based on race*If you are notdoing well you are less worthyt