SCWK2006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heterosexism, Class Discrimination, Iris Marion Young
10 May 2018
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SCWK2006- Research Skills for Social Work
Lecture 1
Levels of Oppression
• Internalised oppression is an outcome of external oppression
• Interpersonal
- Person to person
- Labelising/ stigmatising
- Non verbal
• Institutional
- Government policies
- Not making inclusive environments
• Systemic
How do people experience oppression
Iris Marion Young (2004) "Five Faces of Oppression"
• Exploitation
- Not adequately/ paid for labour
• Marginalisation
- When people are marginalised from participating in social and economic life
(Aboriginal people in Australia - do not have an equal opportunity)
• Powerlessness
- When people have been marginalised for time and start to believe that their life
doesn't matter
- Young people feel alienated from the higher levels of power
• Cultural Imperialism
- Values and practices from the dominated group becomes social norms
• Violence
- People experiencing physical, mental violence
Intersectionality of Oppression
• Term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw
• Different forms of oppression (sexism, heterosexism, racist, classism, ableism, ageism)
are interlinked and cannot be examined or resisted separately from one another
Focus Areas of Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice (AOP)
• Political Inequalities
• Personal suffering
• Social policies
• Economic forces
AOP v/s Mainstream social work
• AOP considers the "bigger picture"
- Looking at roots and structural factors
• AOP connects the personal to the political
- Political - distribution of resources and power
• Challenges status quo by (re) politicising issues
AOP & Social Work Research
• Transformation relieig people’s eotioal pai ad immediate difficulties while
simultaneously working to change the larger forces that generate inequity,
unfairness and social injustice (Baines)
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