...It is well known that the social work profession is value-based, that is, professional values in mind should accompany everything social workers do. Yet the argument here is whose values should determine what is right and what is wrong anyway? This query becomes particularly important, when some people of the social work profession expect others to apply “Western” social work Code of Ethics and values to other cultures and societies such as the Middle East or Arab world, without taking into consideration the Arab social worker different perspectives of what is right and what is wrong? Examples of such people are the authors of a journal titled “What is Sacred When Personal and Professional Values Collide?” Written by Richard Spano, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Terry Koenig, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare. As for the development of social work in the Arab world, Ragab (1995, cited in Al-Krenawi, and Graham, 2003) maps out the historical progress of social work as a profession in the Arab world as a product of both French and British colonialism. According to Al-Krenawi and Graham (2003), Egypt played a significant and influential role in the development and expansion of the social work profession in the Middle East and Arab world. In 1935, Egypt became the receiver of the American model of social work education and practice. Beginning in the 1960s, other Arab countries designed and implemented their own social work education...
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...HLSC120: Society, Culture and Health eLearning Lecture Enhancement eModule Module 2 – Week 2 by by Dr Monica Nebauer (Queensland) Revised 2014 Introduction Welcome to the second of six eLearning Lecture Enhancement Modules for this unit. As explained in your first eModule, the purpose of these eModules is to extend the content of your weekly two hour lecture, to create knowledge links for you to the Seminar Questions that you and other students will be planning to present in your Student Seminars, and to help you enrich your learning as you develop your reflective learning and writing skills. In this eModule, you will be able to explore further: social changes from world globalizing processes, health care and globalizing processes, and finally, globalizing processes and cultural diversity in Australia. As you will be aware there is one Reflective Learning and Writing proforma on LEO that you are asked to use for your Reflective Learning and Writing task (2,500 words). At the end of this eModule (look under the green box) there are five questions from which you can choose a question to answer for your second assessment task. Learning Outcomes and Graduate Attributes The Learning Outcomes (with numbering from your Unit Outline) that will be addressed in this eModule are as follows – 1. explain changes in contemporary Australian society, culture and health related to world globalising processes; 2. discuss the impact of societal changes and an increasing cultural diversity...
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...People over 60 • Unemployed people over 50 • Immigrants Part 2: Write a 50- to 100-word response to each question: Group 1: Asian Americans 1) Describe your assumptions, beliefs, and perceptions about members of this group. I often assume that Asian Americans are very intelligent and successful. I often belief that they are very peaceful and logical. If someone asked me what religion I thought they may be, I would probably say Buddhism. I have always believed in many of Buddha’s quotes, and admire the respect, meditation, and peacefulness of the culture. I never assume what country or area of Asia they are from, because I am unaware of the differences. 2) When you think about working professionally with members of this group, are there traits, characteristics, or other issues about the group that you would be curious about, concerned about, or intimidated by? Why would understanding diversity issues be important to you as a human services worker? Their own therapeutic beliefs can affect the agencies therapeutic response. The differences in beliefs can challenge the organization to find the proper resources and assistance for the clients. However, just because their race is Asian American, does not mean they would not have customs of an American citizen. It is important not to assume or create stereotypes when dealing with our diverse society. It is important not to “overrate” or “underrate” any individual, and their beliefs and values...
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...A subculture is a culture that exists within the dominant culture of a society. Therefore, members of a subculture should have different norms and values to the rest of society, and could be regarded as deviant because of this. Merton (1938), a functionalist sociologist, was aware that not everyone in society shared the same beliefs and goals, however, his works concentrated on the individual. He suggested that those lower down in a stratified society had restricted goals. He developed ‘strain theory’ and argued that there are five responses to the value consensus, which are conformity; innovation, ritualism, retreatism; rebellion. However, while Merton focuses on deviance as an individual response to anomie, subcultural theory focuses on delinquency as a subcultural response. Albert Cohen (1955) drew upon Merton’s idea of strain. He states that working-class youths share the success goals of mainstream culture, but they lack the means to achieve these goals. They have failed in education, live in deprived areas and have very few job opportunities, making it hard for them to achieve their goals. This leads to a sense of failure and inadequacy, something Cohen calls ‘status frustration’. Their solution to the problem is the development of a delinquent subculture that values toughness, aggression and masculinity. This new subculture reverses the norms and values of society, what is regarded as ‘good’ for the majority becomes ‘bad’ within the subculture, and vice versa. Cohen argues...
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...Choose one of the frameworks for categorizing and comparing cultures from your reading. Summarize the framework and its main components for categorizing culture. Explain how you may implement this framework in a current or future professional setting. Explain the potential strengths and pitfalls of using this framework within your professional setting. The Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck framework identifies six dimensions of culture, problems that all societies face. The framework then offers three ways in which the society can handle that problem. By determining how a society handles each problem, you can learn a lot about their culture. This framework allows you to see where the society is coming from, so you can respond to their worldview, and not commit an intercultural mistake. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s framework was revolutionary since it conceptualized the idea of cultural variation. The framework also allows all solutions to be present in a society, but ranks them in order of preference. Take the “Relationships Among People” problem as an example of the framework’s application. The framework offers the following three options for dealing with this problem: (1) The greatest concern and responsibility is for one’s self and immediate family (individualist), (2) for one’s own group that is defined in different ways (collateral), or (3) for one’s groups that are arranged in a rigid hierarchy (hierarchal). If you are interviewing to work at a firm that puts an emphasis on...
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...TimeAmerican society places much emphasis on merit through work. Vacation periods in the U.S. are the shortest among industrialized nations. Many argue that advanced technology has only busied people’s lives further, instead of alleviating the time necessary to complete day-to-day tasks.Using the readings for this module, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, complete the following: * Examine Huizinga’s “Play Theory.” Why is “play” differentiated from other activity? What makes play “play” and not just another activity one does in the day? * Considering this theory, evaluate how culture influences your play and leisure time. Support your statements with examples and scholarly references.By Saturday, December 22, 2012, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, January 2, 2013, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.Discussion Grading Criteria and RubricFor assistance with any problems you may have when completing this assignment—OR—to offer your assistance to classmates, please use the Problems and Solutions Discussion area located through the left side navigation link. | | | | Use the Respond link to post responses and materials that pertain to this assignment. Use the Respond link beneath any existing postings to respond to them. | | Assignment 1: Discussion—Cultural Influences on Work and Leisure Time | Respond | This table lists options that can be used to view responses. Expand...
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...Organizational Behavior Paper Organizational Behavior Law enforcement is an essential aspect in any society and are responsible for providing an adequate response to crime, maintaining order, assisting community members, and enforcing the law. Police officers are also responsible for displaying professional behavior and a professional demeanor when dealing with members of the public as well as establishing relationships of trust through their behavior. When police officers apply to much force or select criminal suspects based on their race or ethnic group their behavior can have negative consequences on the relationship established with the policing agency and members of the community. The behavior of the police ties are directly to the type of trust community members will have for police officers. If members of the community do not trust, the police because they do not display behavior fair and impartial the police will have difficulty persuading community members to cooperate in criminal investigations or even in community members report crimes. In order for the police officer to have the necessary skills and tools to establish a strong working relationship with community members that they must receive the proper training form his or her police organization. Organizational behavior is the actions and attitudes of the members of the organization. The police organization and the organizational structure will an enormous impact directly...
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...Culture refers to the beliefs, ideas, traditions and behaviors portrayed by certain communities and are passed from one generation to the other. Cultural diversity involves the changes that have taken place comparing what was deeply rooted in culture in ancient times and how it has been changing with time. Psychological behavior and processes are analyzed under biological bases and is known as the biological psychology. It can also be termed as behavioral neuroscience. On the other hand, the study of the nervous system is called neuroscience. The outcomes of an action always describe the character or the behavior of a person. In learning about mechanisms and functions, study needs to be carried on the changes that take place on the behaviors of people. Improved education has made it clear to different people the rights they have and what they have to know about their well beings. This has greatly led to the changes experienced in culture. This study will major on how girls and women have changed their psychological behaviors from the basic that governed cultural beliefs to what it is now. Through education and awareness among the girls and women in the society, there has been increasingly experienced changes that influence the behavior of the people in the society, as women and girls being a part of them play a role. Changes in the recent decades have been experienced in many fields including reproductive and care giving roles, education, work, personal relationships and health...
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...University of Phoenix Material Foundations of Human Services Worksheet Answer, in a 50- to 100-word response, each of the following questions: 1. Identify the four themes of human services. A. Problem living – Human being are not always able to meet their needs. Human services has developed in response to the need of individuals groups or communities for assistance to live better lives. B. Self Sufficiency help human services open doors for success service providing clients or consumers of human services, with the opportunity and support to be self-sufficient. Economic self sufficiency strengthens an individual’s self-esteem. C. Social control- Give individual who cannot provide for themselves temporarily or long term. Social control also determine who can received services. D. Rehabilitation-Is a task that help individual return to a prior level of functioning. 2. Identify professional disciplines that influence human services . A. The sociology disciplines examines the ways in which human societies influences the people who lives in these societies. Sociology also assess individuals in the broader culture and tries to account for the differences within human culture. Sociology helps human services professionals understand elements that affect living, such as family structures, family roles, gender and poverty. B. Anthropology studies the cultural, physical and social development of human and the variation in their customs...
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...different cultures, nationalities and which helps healthcare professional to build a cultural competencies. The tool is used to investigate a particular ethnic group or population. As the United States becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, every individual’s basic needs to be addressed. Heritage assessment tool helps to identify and acknowledge one’s own cultural heritage and beliefs and how it influences one’s attitude and behavior in providing care .Culture is a specific pattern of behavior, which include belief, custom knowledge, and skills that distinguishes any society from others. Heritage assessment tool determine how much a person adhere to their traditions. A traditional person always observes his or her traditional culture very closely. This tool is useful in performing heritage assessment depending on how deeply a person identify and answer question and also help to understand health tradition of a person. The greater number of positive response shows the person’s greater identification with traditional heritage. Assessing an individual’s cultural heritage is the first and most important step to Identify the communication barrier of a person from another culture. Each culture views the world differently. Based on their beliefs and practices, people from different ethno cultural heritage define health and illness differently. Their cultural background, religion, influences a person’s health and beliefs .A nurse must understand these diverse cultures and their...
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...Considerations Cultural diversity is normal in society today. People come from different races, cultures, and backgrounds. People have to learn the importance of respecting the culture of others. Everyone can learn from others. Superiority does not exist because of an individual’s culture. Some people from different cultural backgrounds believe that he or she is better than others but this is an untruth. Cultural concerns can have a negative influence on justice and security administration. Stereotyping because of an individual’s culture is a problem in society. Good people exist in every race and so do not so good people. One person of a specific culture making a mistake does not mean that the entire culture of people will make the same mistake. People of different cultures do not always receive fair treat in the justice system. An example of this would be an African American male who is serving 20 years in prison because he was falsely indentified during a lineup. People have to be willing to acknowledge that he or she is not sure that the individuals in the lineup are the guilty party. Some people like to say that African Americans look alike. This is not true. Some people may have similar features but this does not mean that he or she looks alike. African Americans are often not hired for certain positions for fear that he or she will not be honest. This type of behavior and thinking should not occur in the criminal justice system. Society has to learn to treat people fair....
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...University of Phoenix Material Foundations of Human Services Worksheet Answer, in a 50- to 100-word response, each of the following questions: 1. Identify the four themes of human services. • Problems in living: human beings are not always able to meet their own needs and human services has developed in response to the need. • The growing number of problems in the modern world: Human services has emerged in response to the growth in humans problems in our modern world. • Self-sufficient: empower clients to make decisions and assume responsibility for their actions. • Social care, social control, and rehabilitation: assisting clients to meet their social needs who cannot provide for themselves and whoever once able to live independently becomes unable to function socially, physically, or psychologically. 2. Identify professional disciplines that influence human services. Professional disciplines that influence human services are: mental hospital, social philosophies, probation and jail, and treatment of people with mental illness, child welfare. These have been influent on human services. The disciplines allows human services professionals to understand how different aspects of culture and life affect individual (according to text book) 3. How have societal viewpoints concerning mental illness or health influenced human services over the past three centuries? Over the past three centuries, The societal...
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...Mental Illness Mental Illness:- • Introduction :- Mental disease and its stigma is observed in most of the culture. People of different age, gender or socio-economic status may suffer from mental illness. At least twenty percent of people pass through mental disorders in some way or the other during their lifetime. Stigma towards mentally ill people is very risky. This affects on their ability to perform duties, their revival, treatment procedure and support they receive, and their recognition in the group of people. Stigma is considered as a sign of shame, dishonour or disapproval, of being rejected by others. Stigma is painful and humiliating. Since Civilization, persons suffering from mental barrier of their disability accompanied social stigma and negative social mind-sets. A determined negative outlook and social rejection of people with disabilities is evident all through history and across the culture. Society viewed mentally ill people as either morally wrong or they were being punished by God, or as being possessed by demonic spirits requiring some religious interventions. Research indicates that the extent of social rejection and social stigma differs with precise disabilities, creating a well-defined hierarchical order. Stigmatization possibly has a remarkable comportment on the distribution of life chances in mental illness. • Society :- Generally people have feeling that person gripped under mental illness is less capable, inefficient, should be...
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...4) Education is an aspect of socialisation which involves the acquisition of knowledge and learning of skills. It shapes our beliefs and moral values through a systematic formal transmission. Education is said to be an integral function of society, as it provides a contributory characteristic which helps to maintain and adapt society and it’s values Before the 1960’s, education was taught through a system known as the ‘Tripartite’ system. This involved all children at the age of eleven undertaking an exam in order to ascertain individual ability in order to separate the children into streams of ability and assign them to what was believed to be the most appropriate school. Those demonstrating exceptional ability went to Grammar schools, which were designed to prepare them for professional occupations. Those of lesser ability moved to Secondary modern schools which focused on providing pupils with the skills necessary to prepare the students for more manual and unqualified jobs. A third sector was introduced called a Technical college. This was primarily based on teaching the children purely manual skills which in turn would be used for manual labour. This system frequently served to reinforce social inequality because it was largely middle class children who went to Grammar school, while the working classes were frequently restricted to either Secondary Modern’s or technical schools. The difference being that middle class families provided their children with advantageous primary...
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...Considering the seeds of discouragement when assessing young people. Introduction In order to consider and analyse the seeds of discouragement when assessing young people, this essay will examine and discuss a number of factors that relate to the discouragement felt by young people which can leave them with unmet needs. The first objective of this essay is to describe what can lead to “climates of futility” by examining negative expectations and professional pessimism. The essay will then go on to explain how the response from professionals to problem behaviour can become a contributing factor to a child’s sense of futility, through discussing positive and negative theories of behaviour. The second objective of this essay is to examine the concept of “learned irresponsibility” and to understand how youth cultures are able to contribute to such learned helplessness and rebellion through things like social exclusion and street gangs. Next, nearing the end of this essay I will offer my opinion as to how the child and youth care worker should approach the young person differently during the assessment as to avoid the young person becoming discouraged during the transaction. Before the conclusion I shall offer my self reflection as well as sharing the impact that this topic of “the seeds of discouragement” has had on me. Climates of Futility The climates of futility refers to those environments which may cause young people to experience feelings of deficiencies and that...
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