In the YouTube video The Story of Stuff (a short animated documentary about the life cycle of material goods) we could see that consumerism is what matters in society today. Everyone is focused on shopping whereas the value of a person is not on what he/she is, but rather on what he/she purchases. For this reason, social workers who have the privilege to work with people of different age, race, culture, religion and background, need to practice structural social. By doing this, clients will know what structural barriers are and how these can affect the control, …show more content…
Structural social work by definition is to “maximize client resources; reduce power inequalities in client-worker relationships; unmask the primary structures of oppression; facilitate a collective consciousness; foster activism with social movements; and encourage responsibility for feelings and behaviors leading, to personal and political change” (Carniol, 1992, p. 1). Through structural social work, the barriers imposed in society through ideologies can be changed as the structural social work seeks social justice promoting equality between every individual, and provide the tools for those who have no support to be able to speak up for their rights and demands a fair treatment in