CSCS1203A Frameworks in context 2020Assessment 2 EssayDue date 26/8/2020Limit 2000 wordsCritically Discuss the theoretical concepts of privileges and oppression, demonstrating your understanding of...

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Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Privileges of Dominant Groups    3
Conclusion    8
References    10
Introduction
The term privileges defined as an advantage someone has over others. It has many shades of meaning. Most common is the one having special status or power vested in a position or post. It usually use in the context of solemnity and honor. We encountered with various people, who have marginalized in society. These people may form by the degree of oppression or may coping up with the consequences of oppression in their everyday lives.
Privileges of Dominant Groups
The anti-oppressive activities can be understood as an omnibus term. It consist of many practices and approaches like radical and critical structural framework, feminism and anti-racism. The oppression surrounded in the society for maintaining unequal status quo. We all are a victim of oppression in some way or others. It is just cruel and unjust act of the dominant group of people having powers and authority.
If the oppression has been removed, what would happen next depends upon the choice of the individual or group, as well as on the state of mind when making decisions. The modern social workers have experiencing the unique development of the anti-oppression approach. This approach is slowly replacing the strong and established social work model of self-fulfillment and individual rehabilitation. The articulation and mounting sophistication of the approach (anti oppression) has continued to be impacted by gay, lesbians, disability, feminist, ethnicity and other social movements.
The need to challenge inequality factor is one of the most important factors in anti-oppressive practices. As stated by Castania et al. (2017), fight, flight or submit are the usual choices. Regardless of the circumstances if survival is our priority then either remove ourselves from the circumstances of the oppression by any means necessary or plan a strategy and fight to win no holds barred or remain and suffer the consequences.
Whatever the case is, the one thing that will never happen without our direct or indirect intervention is for the oppression to cease of its own accord. It is who must choose to be the author of our own fortune or misfortune. As explained by Adams et al. (2017) perceives the anti-oppressive social work is a type of social work practices. It searches for the structural inequalities and the social barriers in those practices that conducted with workers. The practices related to anti oppressive tries to serve more suitable, perceptive and responsive services by reacting to the requirements of individual and that is without considering their social status.
Dominelli strongly felt that it shows an individual oriented philosophy and an egalitarian system of values concerned with lessening the venomous results of structural inequalities upon the lives of people. The methodology focuses on both outcomes and processes. The approach structuring relationship between people empowers users by reducing the adverse consequences of hierarchy during their encounter with each other and practices they do. There is a need that social workers reinforce their attitude and abilities for the conduct of anti-oppressive activities in various ways.
Social workers require getting knowledge, skills and understanding of their own selves so that they effectively fight with issues on structural level and adopt anti oppressive practices. The significant dimension challenging the inequalities concerns about the building of self-awareness and proper understanding of how social location affects the social worker and their communication with affected group of people. Dominelli; however, argued that knowledge of one helps in equipping individuals for undertaking anti oppressive tasks.
The central focus for Dominelli is self-knowledge. On order to be successful social worker, the anti-oppressive practices must be critical reflection of their own selves. In addition to it, it is important to have understanding of the human rights and issues related to various cultures. It helps significantly to know about them, realizing the underlying problem and reason why oppression still contributes in this contemporary world.
One of the areas related to social work and oppression that has received the maximum benefit is the population of women, with the part of the criticism deriving from the problems of discrimination against the women. This case became evident at the time of 1980 specifically to the feminist social worker. Jackson and Banaszczyk (2016) have explained that the movement of the...