Example Of My Personal Perspective

My Personal Perspectives Examining yourself and your personal perspectives is very important in your everyday life and professionally. Personally, it may direct you to who or what to vote for and why you look at the world the way you do. Professional, self-examination helps reveal possible biases you have and either embrace those biases, which would help if you were helping make a policy, or controlling those biases, as you should with a client. Self-examination of your personal perspectives also helps you ensure that you are being true to yourself in decisions you are making. Five main lenses that are used to look at the world and can also be used to look at yourself and your personal perspectives are: ideology, politics, economics, social …show more content…
To me, ideology is the most important lens because it influences every other part of your life. First, it quite directly influences politics as an individual by comparing the ideologies you believe and comparing them to those of the major political parties or candidates, seeing which one you most closely align with. Secondly, it also influences your economic beliefs. Thirdly, our personal and professional ideology lets you evaluate what social movements are worth your time and energy. Lastly, ideology allows you to look back at historical movements and see whether you agree with their ideologies and methods of movement. In Blau, four main ideology categories are listed. Out of these four, I strongly align myself with two of them: liberalism and feminism. While aligning with more than one ideology may seem problematic, in that the one would either conflict or eclipse the other, which is not true when relating liberalism to feminism. There is little contradiction between liberalism and feminism. Part of these is due to liberalism while reaching all five lenses, is highly political, while feminism is highly social. …show more content…
I believe that it causes disadvantages to those who already have odds stacked against them, such as the poor. This view is due partially to my role as a social worker. Affecting my role as a social worker, I also fully support and believe that the funding of various social welfare programs can be beneficial to the economy as a whole due to a multiplier effect of people receiving the benefits and then putting the money and benefits they are receiving back into the economy.
Social Movement Sadly, I have not been involved in any large-scale social movement such as a protest. It is one of my goals to participate in a protest, though I feel a sort of shame that I haven’t already participated in one with the many issues and protests that have been conducted in the area even within the past couple years. I am proud that social workers have been at the front of so many integral social movements throughout history and am eager to join that history. It is my own problem that I don’t stay well enough informed on these topics.