What is Macro Practice
According to Kivel (2000), this class is at the top 1% of the economic pyramid, controlling 47% of the net financial wealth.
What is the ruling class?
This theory, as explained by Dr. Beltran (GSSW 2017), analyzes power using 3 dimensions: space, level, and types.
What is the Power Cube Theory?
This concept is described as the acceleration and intensification of economic interaction among the people, companies, and governments of different nations.
What is Globalization?
The main assumption of this theory is that all parts influence the sum, and the sum influences the parts.
What is Systems Theory?
Theories give practitioners a lens from which one can understand or conceptualize an issue, while this actually gives directions for interventions or guide change.
This zone has been created by the ruling class in order to avoid dealing directly with the people at the bottom of the pyramid and prevent them from organizing to gain more power (Kivel, 2000).
This theory explains power through the dynamics of exchange and power balancing processes.
This phenomenon is where countries are forced to cut labor, social, and environmental costs to attract mobile capital, often at the disaster to their own nation.
What is the "race to the bottom?" (Brecher, Costello, & Smith, 2000).
Ecological theory, which expands on systems theory to look at where systems are, their interactions, and the direct and indirect influences behavior has on all parts, posits these five distinct systems.
Rothman (1995) describe social planning as this type of model of change, emphasizing professionals with expertise being the ones who guide and control the change process.
What is Top-Down?
This model, as discussed by Kretzman and McKnight (1996), is committed to discovering a communities strengths and capacities rather than focusing on its deficiencies and problems.
Foucalt posits this this type of power, the kind that makes people believe that doing they thing they must do is the true and right thing to do, is the most important kind of power in our society.
What is normative power?
Globalization at first, as described by Brecher, Costello, and Smith (2000), where people with were acting with intent of seeking new economic opportunities, creating new institutions, or trying to outflank political and economic opponents. The argument made was then that globalization would "raise all the boats" if other countries followed suit.
What is Globalization from Above?
This theory considers the role of the natural environment in human experience, positioning people as another part of nature not above it.
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
This model by Rothman (1995) is based on the premise that for change to occur, it is necessary to include the broadest possible participation of community citizens.
The Three Concepts in the Macro Practice Framework
What are the problem, the arena, and the population?
These are the 3 positive characteristics of power, as discussed by Dr. Beltran (GSSW 2017).
What is:
Power To (capacity/action)
Power Within (gaining identity or confidence)
Power With (synergy with partnership)
Petras and Veltmeyer (2001), as discussed by Hussey (2010), argue for this type of globalization, where ownership, production, and trade of basic necessities needs to shift to the people of the "internal market".
What is Development from Below/Development from the Inside?
In the Ecological theory, this system refers to the relational component of how micro systems interact with each other and their subsequent impact on the identified individual.
What is the meso system?
Name the 4 areas of Community Social Work Practice.
What are:
Policy/Leg Advocacy
Organizational Practice
Community Planning and Engagement
Social Movement/Activism
According to the Power Cube Theory (GSSW 2017), this form of power involves ways in which one's awareness of one's rights and interests are hidden through the adoption of dominant ideological values and behaviors by individuals and groups targeted by oppression.
What is invisible power?
This author contends that community practitioners are going to have to engage in a global-community reformist mode of thinking, moving away from critiquing the effects of globalization and moving towards suggesting constructive solutions.
Who is Hussey (2010), Carl Hussey?
In the historical trauma theory, trauma is passed on to other generations through these two ways.
What are genetics and trauma reactions/coping mechanisms and their subsequent impacts on the survivor, family, and community?
These strategies for change focus on consciousness raising through learning, interpersonal bonding, and democratic processes to help people become aware of their own oppression by current societal structures (Hanna & Robinson, 1994).
What are transformative strategies?