SWRK 2100 MIDTERM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Cultural Competence
Answer:
having an awareness and acceptance of cultures and the ability to interact
effectively with people of diverse cultures
Question:
Cultural Literacy Model (culturally driven)
Answer:
-practitioner as Expert
-Assumes superior knowledge
-culture as homogeneous system
-client as member of cultural group
-culture-specific techniques
-nearly impossible
Question:
Experiential Phenomenological Model (process related)
Answer:
-practitioner as learner
-Naivety and curiosity
-plurality and multiplicity of internalized culture
-member as unique individual
-process-oriented techniques
-demands critical self-examination
Question:
Intersectionality
Answer:
-social location or positionality are not fixed concepts, they change with time and
place, the wat all of a personal life characteristics lay on top of each other and
creates a unique set up for life
Question:
Localization or indigenization
Answer:
movement to indigenize or localize social work called for a locally based
understanding and practices of the profession
Question:
"other"
Answer:
,-voice easily becomes subsumed within defining forced of dominant culture
-mitigate the responsibility shared by all
-allows social workers to be oblivious to the fact that they are reproducing values
and norms of dominant culture
Question:
fluid, constantly changing aspect of behaviour that reflects the totality pf
practices by which groups can be identified according to their heritage
Answer:
culture
Question:
to identify how race shapes the lives of both white people and people of colour
-maintains hegemony of SW by whiting out and obscuring racial origins
-
Answer:
whiteness
Question:
universalization (whiteness)
Answer:
whiteness alone can make sense of a problems and its understanding becomes
the understanding
Question:
origins of white power
Answer:
Early days of colonialism, European enslavement of others and capitalism
Johann Blumenbach developed one of the first typologies of race by dividing
humans into five biological categories: Mongolians, Ethiopians, Americans, Malays
and Caucasians. Ranked races in order of superiority; since he considered
Caucasian as most god-like, others fell beneath them The justification of the
enslavement and domination of other races by Whites was seen as the natural
order of society
Question:
"Ways needed to be found for them to fit better with us"
In social service agencies the dominant culture may constitute itself in the position
of power and control through the privileged social location and may determine
and limit the type of social services, supports and resources available to
ethnoracial communities
Answer:
us and them attitude
Question:
Five different models all of which portray ethnoracial others in negative terms: the
inferiority or pathological model, the culturally deficient model, the genetically
, deficient model
Implicitly portrays the dominant culture as superior -notion of white supremacy
compliments race relations, bias and assimilation, take for granted that the
problem stems from ethnoracial people not white people
Answer:
cross cultural approach
Question:
cultural literacy approach
Answer:
Canada's mosaic of cultures and it did help to propagate the idea that the
ethnoracial other need no longer assimilate and should instead be encouraged to
maintain their cultural heritage
-Pay attention to the variability of peoples experiences and avoid making
generalizations about people's behaviour
-Social workers should politically critique the appropriation of culture by the
person who has the power to speak about it
Question:
-The denial of race oppression promotes the naive belief that, underneath the
appearance of differences, everyone is the same
-But when it is observed, it subsequently plays a role in determining the dynamics
of the relationship
-To deny this is to deny that ethnoracial people experience barriers in access to
resources and opportunities
Answer:
colour-blind approach
Question:
anti-racism approaches
Answer:
Western Liberalism. Focusing on equality of treatment. The prevalence of
discrimination Focusing on dismantling barriers and structures (i.e. language).
Question:
ontarios 3 year anti-racism strategic plan
Answer:
4 categories
-Policy, Research and Evaluation;
-Sustainability and Accountability;
-Public Education and Awareness and,
-Community Collaboration.
In addition, there are targeted population-speci■c strategies
Question:
systemic focus
Answer:
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Cultural Competence
Answer:
having an awareness and acceptance of cultures and the ability to interact
effectively with people of diverse cultures
Question:
Cultural Literacy Model (culturally driven)
Answer:
-practitioner as Expert
-Assumes superior knowledge
-culture as homogeneous system
-client as member of cultural group
-culture-specific techniques
-nearly impossible
Question:
Experiential Phenomenological Model (process related)
Answer:
-practitioner as learner
-Naivety and curiosity
-plurality and multiplicity of internalized culture
-member as unique individual
-process-oriented techniques
-demands critical self-examination
Question:
Intersectionality
Answer:
-social location or positionality are not fixed concepts, they change with time and
place, the wat all of a personal life characteristics lay on top of each other and
creates a unique set up for life
Question:
Localization or indigenization
Answer:
movement to indigenize or localize social work called for a locally based
understanding and practices of the profession
Question:
"other"
Answer:
,-voice easily becomes subsumed within defining forced of dominant culture
-mitigate the responsibility shared by all
-allows social workers to be oblivious to the fact that they are reproducing values
and norms of dominant culture
Question:
fluid, constantly changing aspect of behaviour that reflects the totality pf
practices by which groups can be identified according to their heritage
Answer:
culture
Question:
to identify how race shapes the lives of both white people and people of colour
-maintains hegemony of SW by whiting out and obscuring racial origins
-
Answer:
whiteness
Question:
universalization (whiteness)
Answer:
whiteness alone can make sense of a problems and its understanding becomes
the understanding
Question:
origins of white power
Answer:
Early days of colonialism, European enslavement of others and capitalism
Johann Blumenbach developed one of the first typologies of race by dividing
humans into five biological categories: Mongolians, Ethiopians, Americans, Malays
and Caucasians. Ranked races in order of superiority; since he considered
Caucasian as most god-like, others fell beneath them The justification of the
enslavement and domination of other races by Whites was seen as the natural
order of society
Question:
"Ways needed to be found for them to fit better with us"
In social service agencies the dominant culture may constitute itself in the position
of power and control through the privileged social location and may determine
and limit the type of social services, supports and resources available to
ethnoracial communities
Answer:
us and them attitude
Question:
Five different models all of which portray ethnoracial others in negative terms: the
inferiority or pathological model, the culturally deficient model, the genetically
, deficient model
Implicitly portrays the dominant culture as superior -notion of white supremacy
compliments race relations, bias and assimilation, take for granted that the
problem stems from ethnoracial people not white people
Answer:
cross cultural approach
Question:
cultural literacy approach
Answer:
Canada's mosaic of cultures and it did help to propagate the idea that the
ethnoracial other need no longer assimilate and should instead be encouraged to
maintain their cultural heritage
-Pay attention to the variability of peoples experiences and avoid making
generalizations about people's behaviour
-Social workers should politically critique the appropriation of culture by the
person who has the power to speak about it
Question:
-The denial of race oppression promotes the naive belief that, underneath the
appearance of differences, everyone is the same
-But when it is observed, it subsequently plays a role in determining the dynamics
of the relationship
-To deny this is to deny that ethnoracial people experience barriers in access to
resources and opportunities
Answer:
colour-blind approach
Question:
anti-racism approaches
Answer:
Western Liberalism. Focusing on equality of treatment. The prevalence of
discrimination Focusing on dismantling barriers and structures (i.e. language).
Question:
ontarios 3 year anti-racism strategic plan
Answer:
4 categories
-Policy, Research and Evaluation;
-Sustainability and Accountability;
-Public Education and Awareness and,
-Community Collaboration.
In addition, there are targeted population-speci■c strategies
Question:
systemic focus
Answer:
