Cultural Anthropology In Social Work

With studying to be a social worker a lot of ideas and concepts come to the forefront. Thinking only of the career as helping other, involving oneself into the lives of others, and being an active problem solver, or maybe a more professional definition a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. What goes unnoticed is curriculum of others courses which are useful to make this career more operative. The different dynamics of Social Work that involve courses like anthropology, mathematics, history, and science.
Anthropology gives the opportunity to be conscious of, evaluate, and observe many different cultures from the four …show more content…
Ones most closely related to social work are cultural and linguistic anthropology, and more closely with cultural anthropology being that it studies the patterns of human behavior, thoughts and feelings (Haviland 2007). The two main ideas of cultural anthropology, ethnography and ethnology being constructed most of fieldwork and participant observation is clearly a definition of what social workers do. With anthropology students learning about the many social and cultural organizations whether morally, economically, and politically, and different systems followed by citizens of that geographic region. This helps with the involvement in outreach …show more content…
The epidemic of domestic violence has been a century long social problem, being a focal point for both profession. Find the article entitled "Cultural models of domestic violence: Perspectives of social work and anthropology students", being perfect material to grasp the understanding of how social work students and anthropologists work together, views ideas differently, and how they work individually. This study showing the impact of unique interviewing techniques of cognitive anthropology to compare both social work and anthropology students cultural models of the causes of domestic violence. Results from this study show that both student share the understandings of domestic violence yet social work students agree more on distinctive elements that anthropology student do not (Collins and Dressler 2008). Evidence displayed in a table exhibits the ratio of importance domestic violence, external/internal causes, amenability to change, and mental health and how these aspects contribute the domestic violence from the views of anthropology and social work