ABSTRACT This paper seeks to explore and depict the implicit force of classism impacting social work practice and discourse using the example of white rural poverty. The demographics and the specific psychosocial needs of this population will be explored. Cultural attitudes toward the white rural poor will also be examined, as well as the origin of the negative and pejorative sentiments that exist toward this population. Social work’s participation in perpetuating these negative biases and stereotypes will be addressed, both currently and historically. The historic examples illustrated herein are social works’ participation in the national eugenics movement and the efforts to eradicate hookworm in the early 20th century. These historic examples will be used as the backdrop to the examination of classist beliefs. By using boundary theory and the concept of implicit biases, this paper seeks to demonstrate the creation of belonging or not-belonging based on class standing. Using composite case material from this writer’s own experience as a clinician working in primarily impoverished rural enclaves, this paper will highlight the risk of practicing clinically without acknowledging the implicit class bias at play in a cross-class dyad.

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无阶级：社会工作实践中的阶级主义和白人农村保护的例子

摘要 本文试图以白人农村贫困为例，探索和描绘阶级主义影响社会工作实践和话语的内在力量。将探讨该人群的人口统计学和特定的社会心理需求。还将审查对农村白人穷人的文化态度，以及对这一人群存在的负面和贬低情绪的根源。社会工作在延续这些负面偏见和刻板印象方面的参与将在当前和历史上得到解决。这里展示的历史例子是社会工作参与全国优生运动和20世纪初根除钩虫的努力。这些历史例子将用作检验阶级信仰的背景。通过使用边界理论和隐性偏见的概念，本文试图证明基于阶级地位的归属或不归属的创造。使用作者自己作为一名在主要贫困农村飞地工作的临床医生的经验的复合案例材料，本文将强调临床实践的风险，而不承认在跨阶级二人组中起作用的隐性阶级偏见。