Social Work MA, Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Power, 7.5 credits
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Socialt arbete AV, Klass, etnicitet, genus och makt, 7.5 hp
Social Work MA, Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Power, 7.5 credits
General data
- Code: SA046A
- Subject/Main field: Social Work
- Cycle: Second cycle
- Credits: 7.5
- Progressive specialization: A1N - Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- Education area: Social sciences 60%, Health care 40%
- Answerable department: Psychology and Social Work
- Approved: 2024-02-27
- Version valid from: 2024-09-02
Aim
The course aims to help students acquire theoretical and methodological knowledge on ethnicity, gender and power and their intersectional relationships. The aim is to improve the ability to perform critical analysis and apply scientific methods that lead to improved critical and self-reflecting capability as well as improved anti-racist and emancipatory practices in social work.
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, students shall demonstrate
- advanced knowledge of ethnicity and gender and power dimensions in various contexts as well as of how an intersectional analysis creates the conditions for complex understanding of power relationships.
- knowledge of the significance of post-structural, feminist and post-colonial knowledge theory traditions to understanding the consequences of various power relationships on discrimination and oppression.
- advanced ability to critically reflect on inequality-creating and discriminatory practices of language.
- scientific skills for applying anti-racist and emancipatory work methods in social work.
Content
The course provides advanced knowledge for analyses regarding ethnicity, gender and power with particular focus on how these power dimensions work together in various situations and contents, on a local, national and global level. Based on post-structural, feminist and post-colonial fields of knowledge, power relationships are problemized in theoretical and practical contexts in relation to social justice and social change work. Situated knowledge and self-reflection as well as inequality-creating and discriminatory practices of language are given particular attention.
Entry requirements
Bachelor's degree (180 credits) with at least 90 credits GR (A, B, C) in the main area of social work including a final degree project of at least 15 credits or 180 credits acquired within a sociology program, where 15 credits must consist of independent work. In addition, knowledge of Swedish and English equivalent to that required for basic eligibility for Swedish higher education at first level is required.
Selection rules and procedures
The selection process is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance and the local order of admission.
Teaching form
Instruction is in the form of lectures and seminars.
Examination form
0030: Written assisgnments, 1 Credits
Grade scale: Two-grade scale
Two written assisgnments
0050: Seminars, 2.5 Credits
Grade scale: Two-grade scale
0060: Exam, 4 Credits
Grade scale: Three-grade scale
The examiner has the right to offer alternative examination arrangements to students who have been granted the right to special support by Mid Sweden University’s disabilities adviser.
Grading system
Three-grade scale
Course reading
Required literature
Author: Abu-Lughod, L.
Article title: Do muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on Cultural relativism and its Others
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2003, 104(3), 783-790.
Journal: American Anthropologist
Author: Ahmed, Sara
Article title: Vithetens fenomenologi
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2010, 1-2, 49-69.
Journal: Tidskrift för genusvetenskap
Web address: http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/tgv/article/view/778/717
Author: Allelin, M.
Article title: Att orientera sig i skolan, staden och svenskheten. Det fria skolvalet enligt elever i förorten
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2015, (4), 69-98.
Journal: Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys
Author: Combahee River Collective (1977)
Title: The Combahee River Collective Statement
Comment: Kommer tillhandahållas som PDF på kursens Moodlesida.
Author: Dominelli Lena
Title: Anti-oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice
Edition: 2002, (211 s.)
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan
Author: Elsrud, T., Gruber, S. & Lundberg, A. (red.)
Title: Rättssäkerheten och solidariteten – vad hände?: En antologi om mottagande av människor på flykt
Journal: Linköpings universitet
Comment: s. 9-21
Author: Haraway, Donna
Article title: Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 1988, 14(3), 575-599.
Journal: Feminist Studies
Author: Jönsson, J H.
Article title: ‘Beyond Empowerment: Changing local communities’
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: International Social Work
Journal: 2010, 53(3), 393-406.
Author: Lauri, M.
Article title: Mind your own business: Technologies for governing social worker subjects
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2019, 22(2), 338-349.
Journal: European Journal of Social Work
Author: Lewis, Gail
Article title: Situated Voices. ‘Black women’s experience’ and social work
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 1996, 53, 24-56.
Journal: Feminist Review
Author: Loomba, A. (2008)
Title: Kolonialism/Postkolonialism: en introduktion till ett forskningsfält
Edition: 1 eller 2
Journal: Stockholm: Tankekraft
Author: Lundberg, A. & Werner, A. (2016)
Title: En introduktion till genusvetenskapliga begrepp
Journal: Göteborg: Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning. "Feministiska studier av vetenskap" (s. 20-24)
Web address: https://www.genus.se/wp-content/uploads/En_introduktion_till_genusvetenskapliga_begrepp.pdf
Author: Mansfield, N. (2000)
Title: Subjectivity. Theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
Journal: New York University Press. New York. "Foucault: The subject and power" (s.51-78). "Subjectivity and ethnicity: Otherness, policy, visibility, colonialism" (s. 118-135).
Author: McKendrick, D., & Finch, J
Article title: ‘Under Heavy Manners?’: Social Work, Radicalisation, Troubled Families and Non-Linear War
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2017, 47(2), 308-324.
Journal: British Journal of Social Work
Web address: doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcv141
Author: Mulinari, P., Tahvilzadeh, N., & Kings, L.
Article title: Dekolonialt socialt arbete: om relationen mellan gräsrotsrörelser och kritiskt socialt arbete i den urbana periferin
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2020, 27(3-4), 249-267.
Journal: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift
Author: Ono, Erika
Article title: Violence Against Racially Minoritized Women: Implications för Social Work
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2013, 28(4), 458-467.
Journal: Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work
Author: Pease, B. (2010)
Title: Undoing Privilege. Unearned Advantage in a Divided World
Journal: Zed Books. (224 s)
Author: Viruell-Fuentes, E., Miranda, P., & Abdulrahim, S.
Article title: More than culture: Structural racism, intersectionality theory, and immigrant health
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2012, 75(12), 2099-2106.
Journal: Social Science & Medicine
Author: Westerstrand, J.
Article title: Kontextualiseringens svåra konst: Kunskap, kön och förbindelselinjer i en förundersökning om" hedersvåld"
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2017, 209-232.
Journal: Sociologisk forskning
Author: Össbo, Åsa (2020)
Article title: Från lappmarksplakat till anläggarsamhällen: Svensk bosättarkolonialism gentemot Sápmi
Year/Volume/Nr/pages: 2020, 140(3), 420–443.
Journal: Historisk Tidskrift