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Anti-oppressive practice is an approach that aims to end socioeconomic oppression and promote social justice. It involves critically examining power imbalances, diversity, and discrimination in social work and other fields.
Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and communities to represent their interests and control their lives. Learn about the origin, strategies, and challenges of empowerment in social work, citizenship education, management, and more.
The capability approach is a normative theory of human welfare that focuses on people's freedom to achieve valuable lives. Martha Nussbaum, a political philosopher, collaborated with Amartya Sen to develop and apply the approach to various fields and contexts.
The culture of poverty is a social theory that explains poverty as a self-perpetuating cycle of values and behaviors. It was popularized by anthropologist Oscar Lewis, but faced criticism from other scholars and policy makers.
It was only from the 1980s that his work on rapid and participatory forms of appraisal were developed. Chambers has been one of the leading advocates for putting the poor, destitute and marginalised at the centre of the processes of development policy.
A cycle of poverty or poverty trap is when poverty seems to be inherited, preventing subsequent generations from escaping it. Learn about the economic, social, and psychological factors that sustain poverty, and how it affects health, education, and mobility.
Julian Rappaport is an American psychologist who introduced the concept of empowerment into social work and social psychiatry. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois and a recipient of several awards for his contributions to community psychology and social research.
Mary Richmond (1861-1928) was an American social work pioneer and the mother of professional social work. She founded social case work, advocated for social reforms, and wrote influential books on social diagnosis and social work methods.