Human Behavior and the Social Environment
September 18, 2006
Lesson Plan
Shriver
What is Social Work? What are its purposes and foundations?
Students learn practice content that encompasses knowledge and skills to work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Pg 5
Example: Hospital Social worker and JDL: worked with the patient, with the family members, medical supply, Visiting Nurses, and Insurance companies.
Traditional and Alternative Paradigms: definitions, metaphor of the street lamp,
Many of our laws, and social mores flow from our dominant social paradigms
example of paradigm,
v the earth is flat,
v the earth is the center of the solar system,
v “separate but equal”,
Paradigms shift, during the shift there can be social upheaval
v Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life debates around abortion
v marriage is between one man and one woman
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Paradigm Analysis
Critical Thinking
Deconstruction
Why is this course called Human Behavior and the Social Environment NOT The Social Environment and Human Behavior?
v What is revealed about priority of the profession?
v Political or pedagogical?
v Pre-Modern/Pre-Positivism
ü Humanism
ü Scholasticism
ü Protestantism
v Modernism/Positivism
ü Science
ü Reason
v Postmodernism/Post-Positivism
ü Questioning of knowledge
ü Science is merely another way of telling a story about our existence, and the mechanics of the world.
ü Example: Peter’s research on Gay and Lesbian Workplace Identity Management
Tatum
“Color of Fear” video
The metaphor of the water, standing on the edge of an ocean
Ø Sending a message in a bottle
Ø Throwing the starfish back into the sea
v Racism vs. Prejudice
o Personal belief?
o System of benefits
v Stereotypes
o People of Color
o Gays and Lesbians
o Muslims
o Poor People
o Women
v Transmittal of stereotype from one generation to the next
o Where do we get our information about people with different racial and ethnic backgrounds?
§ Interpersonal Experience?
§ Media?
§ Family?
§ School?
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An invitation to a conversation about race in America
v Active Racism
v Passive Racism
Piercy
v Who?
Ø Consuela “Connie”
Ø Dolly
Ø Geraldo
Ø Nita
v What’s Going On?
Ø Between Geraldo & Dolly
Ø Connie & Dolly
Ø Connie and the Hospital Staff
v Where? The Scenes
Ø The Kitchen
Ø The Hospital