SWP 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Complex Analysis, Three Steps, Intersectionality
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Power relations: power relations may be changed so that strategies of power benefit both the emphasizer (social worker) and marginalized (service user) How do we do intersectionality: first step : we need to think differently about identity, equality and power. This involves asking service users to tell us how they actually live their lives, and then implementing these accounts to shape services. Implications for practice: encourage the inclusion of privilege as a central concept in the discussion of oppression, seek more complex analysis that would consider multiple oppressions as integrated, rather than as singular. Intersecting deviance : social work, difference and the legacy of. All of these are aspects of ones identity and all intersect with one another. How to avoid the problems : an active engagement with history for a more nuanced intersectionality that accounts for time/context, social relations and the legacies of power.
