SWRK 1002H- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)

• School: Trent University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWRK 1002H
• Professor: Shana Almeida

Document Summary

Working with groups and communities: macro. Working with organizations or communities to improve or change laws or policies: the first rule of critical, anti-oppressive practice is that we cannot simply blame marginalized individuals for their experiences of hardship and suffering . Low income cut-off surance workfare (lico) unemployment insurance -> employment in- Key concepts: globalization, social welfare client as customer/consumer oppression, voluntary sector, social policy, economic recession, basic needs, low income cut-off (lico) unemployment insurance -> employment insurance workfare , special interest groups , residual versus institutional. In an educator"s guide for changing the world: methods, models and materials for anti-oppression and social justice workshops (pp. 47). Exploitation: work/labour which benefits the dominant group, economically/ financially, socially, politically, dominant group sets terms of exchange i. e. labour costs low/profits high, deepens inequalities. Marginalization: category of people isolated from social, political and economic spaces based on ideologies, assumptions, stereotypes and prejudices marginalized depend on dominant group for support.