Reflection On Power, Privilege And Oppression

Dictionary, privilege can be defined as, “a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor” (Privilege). Through reading this paper you will learn about the key points from the stories, A Social Worker’s Reflection on Power, Privilege, and Oppression written by Michael S. Spencer and the article White Privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. Then the paper will include my personal beliefs on the topic of privilege and even some of my own personal privilege that

WEEK # Last From one of the final readings; “A Social Worker’s Reflections on Power, Privilege, and Oppression” by Michael Spencer, I will carry the lesson that; the work I have begun is only the beginning. Dr. Spencer is a tenure track faculty member and seasoned researched at the University of Michigan. In this guest editorial for the National Association of Social Workers he quotes Paulo Freire; “that to create social change and to promote social justice, we must begin (the) process with ourselves-through

Children and Families (DCF) to regain custody of her five sons. The journal articles; “A Social Worker’s Reflections on Power, Privilege, and Oppression” by Michael Spence; “Pregnant With Possibility”, Merlinda Weinberg; and Racial Macroaggressions in Everyday Life”, Derald Wing Sue, et. al.; have illuminated some common issues that can occur during my career that will have a profound effect on the power and control the profession can have in the public sphere. I started my reading with the New York Times

According to C. Smith, Social Struggle, they’re a couple of strategies that can help bring people together, three of them, which include starting where people are at, social justice values and increase ties among organizations. I believe that these three strategies have the best chances of bringing a small group of people from my community together. Deep Issues that truly matter to me that revolve around diversity and justice include decreasing prejudice against minorities and to end division between

This memo discusses how the community profile and privilege memo will educate me on the future assignments, how the tasks correlate to the course goals, and how the assignments will aide my future career. The privilege memo and the community profile will allow for reflection on my own privilege, which will help in understanding how to communicate with those who cannot obtain the same opportunities as I can. This will build on my skill of sharing my thoughts with diverse audiences, expose me to

After I read the article, I had to sit back and digest the material for an entire day. The article force me to do some soul searching regarding my position on power, privilege, and oppression. Have I been so oblivious to my surroundings? I quickly thought about the six core values of social work: service, social justice, dignity and worth, importance of human relationships, integrity, & competence. Will I be able to help others; because like Spencer (2008) I took somethings in life for granted?

A personal reflection that I discuss is my personal experience in my K-12 education with an educator I consider to be a “white ally.” It was informative for me to read the excerpt of “Becoming an Ally Breaking the Cycle of Oppression,” by Anne Bishop (2015). Here, I discuss my personal experience with my elementary school teacher, Ms. Erickson (a white ally) and proceed with my exploration of this educational experience in relation to power, privilege, and education. Then, I reflect on the impact

in a personal and cultural assessment of oppression, and recognises our personal lives and statutory work as legitimate sites of anti-oppressive practice (Healy, 2014). What this means in I can also be an oppressor myself, being in the position am in as a Social Worker. We set up the room in a way that perpetuate no hierarchy, meaning as Social Worker, I was facing the client and on the same level. I also took into consideration; the forms of oppression that Peter face. “I explain to him I understand

merge the two theoretical approaches that does not seem to fit. Participants identified as activists conflicted with social work suggest that the role of social work is a professionalized practice that are oftentimes the same people bestowing those oppressions. Other participants identifying as social workers expressed conflict with activism as a result of structural conditions including surveillancing and managerialized practices that limits their work as agents of social change. Participants also expressed

Inequalities in LGBT-Social Work Education: A Systemic Oppression Introduction Expressions such as efforts to “cure” Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals were heard from social workers in the Canadian context several years ago (Carniol, 2010), today this expression has changed slightly because heterosexism, oppression, and discrimination remain in social work education (Dentano, et al., 2016). Canada is a country that has protected sexual minorities rights and has a well-known recognition