The Middle: Social Work’s Role in Systems of Privilege and Oppression

LO 4: Examine how structural systems of oppression that contribute to social injustice affect organizations and communities (SJ; Competency #3)

SJ 6: Interpret how privilege–white, male, cisgender, U.S. citizen, non-Indigenous, middle class, Christian, abled–influences experiences and world views of those groups

SJ 21: Empathize with how clients and communities are harmed by social workers failing to recognize their cultural strengths and resiliency

SJ 25: Reflect on how one’s own privilege, biases, beliefs, and assumptions influence and limit our understandings of clients and communities while de-centering our own