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Economic, Social and Political Inequality Inequality can be sub-divided into three key types: economic inequality, social inequality and polit-ical inequality. Social, economic and political inequalities reinforce each other. No one type of ine-quality ‘comes first’ – it is essentially a circular question.
Aug 1, 2023 · We believe the multidimensional nature of poverty is important for social workers to understand and grasp, particularly in light of how such understanding can inform a critical positionality for social work vis-à-vis its responses to structural inequality, poverty in all its forms and the stigma and othering which people living in and through poverty experience in so many different ways. It ...
Jul 13, 2024 · It starts with a look at social work in general, through to radical social work and community social work. These three chapters provide a good contrast of different social work positions and may be useful to students and practitioners who are unaware that such contrasting positions are possible, and to either locate their own practice within one of these positions or to consider whether they ...
Advancing knowledge in social work calls for using socialworkmetric measures, creating new measures or modifying existing measures to more clearly tap into intervention effects, experimenting with multiple measures of outcome, understanding the limits of measurement, considering different measures of change, and keeping expectations modest about what can be achieved.
- Craig W. LeCroy
- 2019
- Antidiscriminatory and Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
- Work to Alleviate Poverty
- Empowerment of Individuals and Communities
- Trauma-Informed Practice
- Humanized Social Work Practice
A priority within social work practice is addressing the discrimination and oppression which are embedded within cultural norms and social structures and create barriers to social inclusion. Theories of antidiscrimination and anti-oppression have been a significant element within qualifying programs and social work literature for several decades (f...
Social workers demonstrate their commitment to social inclusion through engaging with the causes of poverty and working with people to alleviate its impacts. BASW and CWIP (2019) has published anti-poverty practice guidance and argues that poverty has become the background to social work practice in that it almost universally affects the communitie...
Core to social work is the promotion of social cohesion and the empowerment of people (IFSW 2014). BASW (2014, p. 7) elaborates by detailing how social workers should promote the right to participation and involvement of people “using their services in ways that enable them to be empowered in all aspects of decisions and actions affecting their liv...
Experience of trauma is linked to both the complex causes of social exclusion and its outcomes. Social workers work alongside individuals, families, and communities living with the effects of trauma which may be linked to past events, for example, therapeutic interventions with survivors of child sexual abuse, or ongoing traumatic situations, for e...
Social work can be experienced as dehumanizing, with professional interventions “done to” rather than “with” people (Lishman et al. 2018). In the UK, statutory social work has been criticized as process driven with the system being prioritized over the needs of the individual and the focus being on deficits rather than strengths (Horner 2019). Thes...
- Sally Lee
- lees@bournemouth.ac.uk
Jun 7, 2024 · A sound conclusion from this debate is that social class is a heuristic concept, a concept that still motivates chief developments in the research on social inequality. An important consequence of the plurality of approaches to class analysis is that there is not a set of standard indicators and measures to define class positions, such as the ...
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May 3, 2021 · For social work, it is important to be aware of these processes of exclusion and to identify possible barriers and difficulties. In general, social workers indicate that ‘stronger’ people are the ones who participate in available activities, as these practices require a certain assertiveness or particular social or cultural skills.
