Diversity Ch 4

Expertness is an ______ variable

Ability

How many of the people who signed the Bill of Rights were white males?

All 56

Ethnocentric Monoculturalism combines what two things?

Cultural encapsulation Cultural oppression

Trustworthiness is a ______ variable

Motivation

What is often used to determine the social order?

Race and color

The locus of the problem (Racism, sexism, etc) resides not in marginalized groups, but where?

The society at large

T/F We as social workers are taught to look at and analyze the cultures of our clients, never recognizing how our cultural worldview and inherent biases can diminish our ability to recognize clients' cultural strengths

True

Culturally competent social workers are ones who do what?

1) Can view these behaviors in a nonjudgemental manner 2) Can avoid perosnalizing any potential hostility expressed toward them 3) Can adequately resolve challenges to their credibility

What are the challenges in social work practice that create tensions between social workers and their clients?

1) The culture of the profession itself 2) The cultural worldviews and inherent biases of the social workers themselves 3) The dominant culture context of the agencies

What did African American mothers teach their children during slavery to rear children who would fit into a segregated system and who could physically survive?

1) To express aggression indirectly 2) To read the thoughts of others while hiding their own 3) To engage in ritualized accommodating-subordinating behaviors designed to create as few waves as possible

Social services tend to direct people of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds into what?

A system that is designed for European Americans and serviced by workers from European American groups

How long ago was monocultural ethnocentric bias present?

At the Bill of rights

Why does the social worker need to disclose their thoughts and feelings?

Because they may unduly influence their clients and arrest their individual development. They may become emotionally involved, lose their objectivity, and blur the boundaries of the helping relationship

What often dictate and control our lives?

Chain of command systems Training and educational systems Communication systems Management systems Performance appraisal systems

What characteristics are inferior?

Dark complexion Black hair Brown eyes Non-Christian religion Collectivism Present-time orientation Importance of shared wealth An accent Use of nonverbal and contextual communication Reliance on the oral tradition

In the traditional helping role, what does the social worker do?

Encourages self-exploration so that the client can act on his/her own behalf. Expected to avoid giving advice or suggestions and disclosing their thoughts and feelings.

The social work profession and the systems through which it has evolved historically have been and presently are designed to benefit who?

European Americans

A social worker who is perceived as trustworthy is likely to what?

Exert more influence over a client than one who is not

Expert

He/she has the necessary knowledge, skill, experience, training, and tools to help

What indirect behavior patterns are adopted towards white peoples behavior patterns?

Hostility Aggression Fear

Expertness depends on what?

How well-informed, capable, or intelligent others perceive the communicator to be

The dominant group possesses the power to do what?

Impose its standards and beliefs on the less powerful group

How may the traditional Asian and Pacific Islander client feel more comfortable when dealing with feelings?

In an indirect manner

A social worker playing a relatively inactive role may be perceived as what?

Incompetent and unhelpful

Many marginalized groups in our society live under and umbrella of what?

Individual, institutional, and cultural forces that often demean them, disadvantage them, and deny them equal access and opportunity

White privilege

Invisible knapsack of unearned assets that can be cashed in each day for advantages not given to those who do not have such privilege

Non dominant societies or groups may be percieved as what?

Less developed Uncivilized Primitive Pathological

What characteristics of White-Euro culture are the highly valued components of Euro-American culture?

Light complexion Blonde hair Blue eyes Christianity Individualism Protestant work ethic Capitalism Standard English Control of emotions Written traditions

A social worker who is perceived by clients as highly credible and competent is what?

More likely to elicit trust Motivation to work or change Self-disclosure

What are a few examples of conscious racism?

Neo-Nazis Skinheads KKK

Are worldviews good or bad?

No

Are worldviews right or wrong?

No

Is anyone born wanting to be racist, sexist, or homophobic?

No

Is reputation expertness likely to impress a racial/ethnic minority client? Unless when?

No If it comes from someone in their group

What is perhaps the greatest obstacle to a meaningful movement toward a multicultural society?

Our failure to understand our unconscious and unintentional complicity in perpetuating bias and discrimination via our personal values and beliefs and our institutions

In the profession of SOWK, where was cultural assimilation and cultural genocide demonstrated through?

Our involvement in the removal of Native Americans/First Nations Peoples children from their communities, families, and homes, and in the sterilization of Native Americans/First Nations Peoples women

What are the two major ways the dissociateve process may be manifested?

Playing it cool Uncle Tom Syndrome

The superior group's norms and values are seen as what?

Positive, with the group being described as advanced or more civilized

What defines ethnocentric monoculturalism?

Power or the unequal-status relationship between groups

In many clinical settings, social workers believe that their role as a direct practitioner is to be what?

Primarily nondirective

In the arena of race, institutional racism has created what?

Psychological barriers between people of color and white Americans that are likely to interfere with the social service process

Perceived expertness is typically a function of what?

Reputation Evidence of specialized training Behavioral evidence of proficiency and competence

The individual-centered approach tends to view the problem how?

Residing within the person

The European American worldview encompasses what beliefs and values?

Rugged individualism Mastery and control over nature a unitary and static conception of time Religion based on Christianity Separation of science and religion Competition

How does institutional racism occur?

Sanctioning unequal goals, unequal status, and unequal access to goods and services

Institutional Racism

Set of policies, priorities, and accepted normative patterns designed to subjugate and oppress individuals and groups to force them to be dependent on the larger society

Perceived trustworthiness encompasses what factors?

Sincerity Openness Honesty Apparent lack of motivation toward personal gain

Saying things such as what was said about Peter are what?

Social stereotypes indicating that African Americans are lazy and unmotivated

Color is not the problem, the problem is what?

Societies perception of color

Universality

That regardless of race, culture, ethnicity, or gender, everyone shares an understanding of the nature of reality and truth

Credibility may be defined as

The constellation of characteristics that makes certain individuals appear worthy of belief, capable, entitled to confidence, reliable, and trustworthy

Trustworthiness depends on what?

The degree to which people perceive the communicator as motivated to make valid assertions

Rapport

The emotional climate is realistically positive, and if trust and understanding exist between the parties, the two-way communication of thoughts and feelings can proceed with optimism

Cultural assimilation as practiced in the US

The expectation by the people in power that all immigrants and people outside the dominant group will give up their ethnic and cultural values and will adopt the values and norms of the dominant society - the White, male Euro-Americans

Ethnocentric Monoculturalism

The individual, institution, and cultural expression of the superiority of one group's cultural heritage over another's combined with the possession of power to impose those standards broadly on the less powerful group

Many social work values are based on what?

The profession's historical roots in Anglo-American culture and therefore strongly emphasize individualism and autonomy

Studies indicate that African American clients prefer what type of relationship?

Therapeutic

What are a few reasons clients go to social workers?

They are in distress In need of relief Believe social worker is an expert

Why are minorities not able to discriminate on a large-scale basis?

They do not posses a share of economic, social, and political power equal to that of the majority group

What is playing it cool intended to do?

To prevent whites from knowing what the person of color is thinking or feeling and to express feelings and behaviors in such a way as to avoid offending or threatening white people

T/F Clinical social work practice encompasses numerous theoretical and practice paradigms, including systems intervention, case management, and advocacy

True

T/F It appears that using intervention skills and strategies appropriate to the life values of the culturally diverse client is crucial

True

T/F It is the responsibility of the social worker to recognize how forms of unconscious biases, stereotypes and preconceived notions about those who are culturally and racially different plays out in their personal and professional lives to prevent their negative influence on the helping relationship

True

T/F Racism, sexism, and homophobia may be both conscious (intentional) and unconscious (unintentional)

True

T/F all groups to some extent are ethnocentric

True

T/F we believe that ethnocentric monoculturalism is dysfunctional in such a pluralistic society as the US

True

Of conscious and unconscious, which one may ultimately be the more insidious and dangerous?

Unconscious

What may be the greater enemy other than racism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, and sexism?

Unintentional and covert forms of bias

Ethnocentric values attain what in an organization?

Untouchable and godfather-like status

Uncle Tom Syndrome

Used by people of color to appear docile, non assertive, and happy go lucky

Playing it cool

When African Americans and other people of color may conceal their true feelings

For culturally diverse clients, when is the issue of expertness raised more often?

When the helping profession is culturally different from them

When do worldviews become a problem?

When they are expressed through the process of ethnocentric monoculturalism

What culture is seen as normative?

White

What race is seen as superior?

White

What culture is seen as desirable and normative?

White Euro-American culture

Is there belief in the superiority of one group's cultural heritage?

Yes