Core Social Work Lens
This traditional social work concept focused on how social conditions shape human behavior, but largely ignored the natural environment.
What is the early/conventional person-in-environment perspective?
Sustainability recognizes that the earth’s resources are ____.
What are limited?
Environmental racism refers to the disproportionate exposure of these groups to environmental harm.
Who are people of color, low-income communities, women, and children?
This ecological approach values nature primarily for its usefulness to humans.
What is shallow ecology?
Ecofeminism connects the oppression of women with the oppression of _____.
What is nature?
This historic era shifted thinking away from blaming individuals for poverty and toward structural causes.
What is the Progressive Era?
Mosher defines sustainability as building systems that coexist in harmony with nature and each other for this time frame.
What is far into the future?
An infamous example of environmental racism along the Mississippi River corridor.
What is Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”?
This thinker from Norway coined the term “deep ecology.”
Who is Arne Naess?
This theorist is credited with developing ecofeminist thought.
Who is Françoise d’Eaubonne?
Early social work understood “environment” primarily as this, not the natural world.
What are social and family influences?
NASW explicitly links sustainability to this core value area.
What is environmental justice?
This federal law is often cited in environmental justice claims.
What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?
Deep ecology emphasizes humans are not in the environment, but ______ the environment.
What is with the environment?
Ecofeminism rejects dominance, competition, materialism, and this form of exploitation.
What is technoscientific exploitation?
These two early social work movements differed in whether the individual or the environment was the locus of change.
What are Charity Organization Societies and Settlement Houses?
These are the four forms of sustainability identified in the chapter.
What are cultural, ecological, economic, and political sustainability?
Why are Indian reservations frequently cited in discussions of environmental racism?
What is the placement of toxic waste sites on or near reservations?
This concept refers to identity rooted in relationality with all living systems.
What is the ecological self?
According to ecofeminism, all forms of social domination are whose concern?
What are feminist concerns?
This chapter argues social work must shift from being “in the social environment” to being ________.
What is being in nature as a total ecological system?
Why is “sustainable development” considered an oxymoron in this framework?
What is because unlimited economic growth conflicts with finite natural resources?
Why is “community acceptance of toxic byproducts” a wrong framing in social work exams?
What is because it ignores power, coercion, and structural inequality?
Deep ecologists argue that empathy allows humans to know other beings in this way.
What is through deep, relational empathy—not dominance or control?
Ecofeminism rejects these “_____ tendencies” and instead emphasizes the organic wholeness and interconnectedness of the universe.
What is reductionist (tendencies)?