Being an Underclass in the Worlds of Social Work & Social Welfare

• Main Authors: LU,PEI-CHUN, 盧蓓君
• Other Authors: 莊文芳
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29439v

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 社會工作學系碩士班 === 106 === My parents raised me and my brother with great effort, although my family lived a difficult life and meanwhile was added insult to injury by kith and kin. Confronting this circumstance, my parents chose to render good for evil and to help others without trying to grab one’s attention. I got influenced by parents and hence persevered in providing help to others. By writing this thesis, I find out what makes me care about disadvantaged children is the experience of living in a family that prefers boys to girls, thus gaining less attention and lacking confidence. The schools and teachers providing support to me to get back the confidence is also one of the reasons that make me keep working and provide more assistance to them. Such behavior is also caused by the emergence of psychological projection when I see children who need support. I have been facing discrimination and criticism, even having difficulty on looking for a job because of the identity of social worker. Such phenomenon makes me lose confidence, feel self-contemptuous, and even have self-attribution bias. I attribute all these problems to myself and don’t realize it a bullying caused by social institution. It’s a social common phenomenon when confronting stereotypes from other individuals and classes. After I had quitted the work of providing foster care service, I received good education about the system of social working and supervision. In this process, I know that it’s more important to help others to have a life with better quality than only live one’s own life. Through self-narration, I obtain my self-identification: a person who was born and educated in underclass. With this awareness, I could better help other people who were stereotyped by classes. By dropping away the sense of interiority and achieving self-identification, I could engage social work with more confidence.