Marginalization of social work practice with ethno-racial minorities in mainstream human service organizations in a Canadian setting : a critical exploratory study of systemic issues
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Abstract
The thesis is a qualitative study from critical theory perspectives to enhance \nunderstanding of how systemically mainstream organizations marginalize social work \npractice with ethno-racial minorities. It also explores strategic implications for systemic \nchange based on field research findings. Ten social workers from Edmonton – the \nprovincial capital city of Alberta, Canada - participated in investigative dialogues for the \nthesis field research. These research participants’ workplace stories lend themselves to \nexplore three questions: what does marginalization of practice with ethno-racial \nminorities look like in mainstream organizational settings; what is there to understand \nabout it as a systemic issue and what the research findings imply for change strategies. \nA critical analysis of dialogic data thematically identifies everyday work issues \nthat describe how practice with ethno-racial minorities is kept at the operational and \nservice-delivery fringe of individual workplaces. These thematic findings point to \nbroader issues of the mainstream human service organization sector. These broader \nissues further highlight how the practice marginalization of concern in this thesis is a \nsystemically constructed issue. These broader issues are mainstream benevolence, social \nwork as an employment regime, multicultural service delivery as a thrill and clientization \nof ethno-racial minorities. \nIn consideration of these sector-wide issues, implied change strategies reveal \nthree thematic directions for systemic transformational change: (i) continued dialoguing \ninvolving concerned social workers and ethno-racial minority community leaders, (ii) \ncommunity social work to build and foster coalitionary activist work and organizations, \nand (iii) participatory research involving a community sharing concern of the practice \nmarginalization issue so as to build a strong knowledge-base to support and empower broad-base activist endeavour to effect change about mainstream human service \norganizations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".