SWK 513 Ch5

Understanding Human Behavior and the Social
Environment
Eleventh Edition
Chapter 5
Ethnocentrism and
Racism
Copyright © 2019 Cengage. All Rights Reserved.

Learning Objectives
• LO 5-1 Define and describe ethnic groups, ethnocentrism,
race, racism, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, and
institutional discrimination
• LO 5-2 Outline the sources of prejudice and discrimination
• LO 5-3 Summarize the effects and costs of discrimination
and oppression and describe effects of discrimination on
human growth and development
• LO 5-4 Suggest strategies for advancing social and
economic justice
• LO 5-5 Outline some guidelines for social work practice with
racial and ethnic groups
• LO 5-6 Forecast the pattern of race and ethnic relations in
the United States in the future

LO 5-1 (1 of 2)
• Define and Describe Ethnic Groups,
Ethnocentrism, Race, Racism, Prejudice,
Discrimination, Oppression, and Institutional
Discrimination
– Ethnic Groups and Ethnocentrism
– Race and Racism
– Aspects of Social and Economic Forces: Prejudice,
Discrimination, and Oppression
– Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes

LO 5-1 (2 of 2)
• Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Is the Problem of
Whites
– Discrimination Against Arab Americans and American
Muslims
• Race Is a Social Concept
• Institutional Values and Racism: Discrimination in
Systems
– Organizational Macro Systems
– Community Macro Systems

LO 5-2
• Outline the Sources of Prejudice and
Discrimination
– Sources of prejudice and discrimination
– No single theory provides a complete picture of why
racial and ethnic discrimination occur.
– Projection: frustration-aggression, countering insecurity
and inferiority, authoritarianism, history, competition and
exploitation, socialization patterns, belief in the one true
religion, white supremacy, evaluation of discrimination
theories

LO 5-3 (1 of 2)
• Summarize the Effects and Costs of Discrimination
and Oppression and Describe the Effects of
Discrimination on Human Growth and
Development
• Impacts of Social and Economic Forces: The
Effects and Costs of Discrimination and
Oppression
• Stereotyping and Multiculturalism: A Perspective
• Intersectionality of Multiple Factors

LO 5-3 (2 of 2)
• The Effects of Discrimination on Human Growth
and Development
– History and Culture of African Americans
 The United States has always been a racist country.
– Effects of Discrimination on Development of Self-
Concept
 The term self-concept refers to the positive and negative
thoughts and feelings that one has toward oneself.
– Afrocentric Perspective and Worldview

LO 5-4 (1 of 3)
• Suggest Strategies for Advancing Social and
Economic Justice
– Traditional Models of Community Change
 Various approaches have been developed for community
practitioners to bring about community change.
 Traditionally, they have been categorized into three conceptual
frameworks: locality development , social planning, and social
action.
• Contemporary Conceptual Frameworks of
Community Change

LO 5-4 (2 of 3)
• Community Strategies to Promote Social and
Economic Justice
• Mass Media Appeals: Striving to Change
Institutional Values
– By expanding public awareness of the existence of
discrimination and its consequences, the media may
strengthen control over racial and ethnic extremists.
• Greater Interaction Between Minority Groups and
the Majority Group

LO 5-4 (3 of 3)
• Civil Rights Laws: Changing the Legal Macro System
– In the past 60 years, equal rights have been legislated in
areas of employment, voting, housing, public
accommodation, and education.
• Activism
– Rosa Parks’s Act of Courage Sparked the Civil Rights
Movement
• Affirmative Action: A Macro-System Response
• Confronting Racist Remarks and Actions
• Minority-Owned Businesses
– Are Native American Casinos a Benefit or a Detriment?

Asset-Based Community Development
• A key instrument used in the deficiency model is a
“needs” survey, which focuses on the deficits in a
community
• Service providers are under funding pressure to
provide annual evidence that problems continue to
intensify—in order for funding to be renewed
• An asset-based community development has the
potential to turn other deteriorated neighborhoods
into communities that will prosper and flourish

Human Rights and Social Justice
• The Council on Social Work Education has placed
increased emphasis on human rights.
• Social justice is an “ideal” in which all members of
a society have the same opportunities.
• Integral to this value, social workers have an
obligation to engage in advocacy to confront
institutional inequities, prejudice, discrimination,
and oppression.
• What are basic “human rights”?

LO 5-5 (1 of 2)
• Outline Some Guidelines for Social Work Practice
with Racial and Ethnic Groups
• Social Work Practice with Racial and Ethnic
Groups
• Social workers and other helping persons have
many of the prejudices, stereotypes, and
misperceptions of the general society.

LO 5-5 (2 of 2)
• There is a danger that a social worker will use her
or his own cultural, social, or economic values in
assessing and providing services to clients.
– Ethnic-Sensitive Practice
– Empowerment
– Strengths Perspective
– Culturally Competent Practice
– Cultural Humility
– Social Work Roles for Countering Discrimination

LO 5-6
• Forecast the Pattern of Race and Ethnic Relations
in the United States in the Future
• The Future of U.S. Race and Ethnic Relations
• It is clear that minorities such as African Americans,
Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans
will assertively, and sometimes aggressively,
pursue a variety of strategies to change racist
prejudices and actions.
• Cultural pluralism appears to be the form that race
and ethnic relations are presently taking.

SWK 513 Ch5

More Related Content

What's hot

Similar to SWK 513 Ch5

More from TAMUCSocialWork

Recently uploaded

SWK 513 Ch5