- Do you strongly identify with a particular social group/groups? What would you consider is your social identity? Which of the groups you belong to are dominant in our society and which are not?
- What is a social group? What do the members share and how does the membership affect the members?
- Give examples of three social constructs that you may believe in or in which some people think is true.
- What do you think of race as socially constructed?
- Regard your gender and describe how society defined certain roles for you from when you were born till today.
- What do you think of sexual orientation? Why is heterosexuality considered natural and superior?
- Why is it considered economic and financially sustainable to keep the poor in the lower socio economic strata, thus creating a social class that is lesser than the class with has more income, resources and more power? Is this the dominant way of thinking and believing?
- Summarize how the American population is changing with regard to race, age, sexual orientation and physical disability. How would the new trend affect social welfare programs?
- Trace the historical implication of exploration, colonization, forced relocation, enslavement, expansion into Mexico, immigration, refugee influx and finally undocumented immigrants in creating a more diverse country. How do these events help us understand current social problems?
- What are some factors that prevent people from utilizing social welfare services?
- Describe multiculturalism and how can social workers be culturally competent?
- The Ecological framework integrates cultural sensitivity and multiculturalism. Please explain this with examples.
- How can one achieve cultural competency?
- The Child and Adolescent Service System Program Technical Assistance Center views cultural competency as a continuum consisting of six stages (Cross, Bazron, Dennis, & Isaacs, 1989:cited in Lecca et al., 1998). What are these stages?
- What civil rights should the LGBT people have? What can social workers do in their daily functioning?
- Why are multiracial or transracial adoptions controversial?
- What are your view on reparations for past injustices, underfunded schools, environmental justice, English only emphasis and genetic or biological determinism of diversity?
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