17. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE

Question 1

community organizing

Answer 1

Engaging in actions in a collaborative way with other psychologists, professionals in other disciplines, community members, organizations, and local government.

Question 2

community-based participatory research

Answer 2

Research that involves an exchange of resources and ideas between researchers and the community members as a way of understanding that is guided by community needs, also known as “participatory action research.”

Question 3

activism

Answer 3

In Community Psychology terms, activism is any action taken in an effort to bring about second-order change to address an injustice in society.

Question 4

empowerment

Answer 4

The process of gaining power emerging at the individual, organizational, community, and societal levels, which are affected by peoples’ previous experiences, skills, actions, and context.

Question 5

structural violence

Answer 5

Systemic violence or oppression perpetrated by those who have power and influence in society toward those who are disadvantaged by society.

Question 6

dehumanizing structures

Answer 6

Also known as power structures; structures created in society that benefit the oppressor class in the form of institutions, policies, influence, and other societal constructs.

Question 7

social justice

Answer 7

Involves the fair distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges that provide equal opportunities for education, healthcare, work, and housing.

Question 8

oppression

Answer 8

Oppression can be described as the collusion of dehumanization and exploitation.

Question 9

oppressors

Answer 9

The group of individuals who have the power, influence, and power structures in place that further their goals while taking away the rights, needs, and resources of others.

Question 10

dehumanization

Answer 10

Involves redefining the targets of prejudice and violence by making them seem less human (that is, less civilized or less sentient) than other people.

Question 11

oppressed

Answer 11

The group of individuals who do not benefit from the power structures in society and lack basic resources, rights, treatment, and opportunity in society.

Question 12

collective efficacy

Answer 12

The belief that the actions of the group can be successful in creating change.

Question 13

needs-based strategies

Answer 13

Addressing the needs of a population, such as adequate health care or racial, economic, social, and educational justice.

Question 14

rights-based strategies

Answer 14

Addressing the rights of a population, such as legal, political, and social justice.

Question 15

Third Way of Empowerment

Answer 15

Empowerment as an iterative process that will ultimately increases the number of opportunities for people to control their own lives.

Question 16

paradox

Answer 16

A seemingly contradictory set of ideas that are intertwined, and must often be embraced when enacting social change.

Question 17

praxis

Answer 17

A repetitive process of turning a theory, lesson, or skill into an actualized action.

Question 18

disenfranchised

Answer 18

To deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity especially; to deprive of the right to vote.

Question 19

self-purification

Answer 19

An examination of one’s own true motivations, flaws, virtues, and willingness to sacrifice when engaging in activism.

Question 20

advocacy

Answer 20

Advocacy involves active promotion of a cause or principle involving actions that lead to a selected goal.

Question 21

critical kinship

Answer 21

One seeing the opposition on an issue as connected to one’s self through a common humanity. An empathic connection based on the universality of the human experience, which can reduce misunderstanding and hate.

Question 22

small wins

Answer 22

Progress that occurs when breaking down a goal into manageable parts.

Question 23

temporal

Answer 23

Accross time.

Question 24

alternative settings

Answer 24

A novel, new community of people that are allowed to live freely and pursue what matters on the individual and group levels.

Question 25

sustainability

Answer 25

Focusing on the commitment to the long-term goal of a campaign by planning for adjustments, adaptations, collaboration, and unexpected barriers in the activism process.

Question 26

logic model

Answer 26

A hypothesized description of the process, step by step, of how a prevention or promotion intervention should work.

Question 27

mutual education

Answer 27

Liberating education between psychologists and community members accomplished through a cycle of open dialogue, dissemination, dialogue, repeat.

Question 28

coalition

Answer 28

A set of organizations, institutions and community agents that cooperate to improve the living conditions of the community.

Question 29

grassroots

Answer 29

Individuals at the ground level of a community group or an organization are brought into key roles in intervention design and planning.