[This was a paper I wrote for a class during my first year as an MSW student] The Elaine B. Pinderhughes article, “Significance of Culture and Power in the Human Behavior Curriculum,” discussed the role of “culture,” which she defined as “commonalities around which a group of people have developed values, norms, and behavior practices,” (p. 138) and “power,” defined as “the capacity to influence for one’s own benefit the forces that affect one’s life space” (p. 139). Specifically, she discussed the concept of majority or dominant groups “maintaining … power by excluding subordinates who have been differentiated and stratified,”…