1st Test

Question 1

Define taboo

Answer 1

A social or religious custom forbidding discussion of (or association with) a particular practice, person, place or thing

Question 2

Enculturation

Answer 2

Learning the culture of your own group

Question 3

Acculturation

Answer 3

Learning another’s culture that you may or may not assimilate into

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

Taking on the culture of the place where you live - you no longer have associations with your roots.

Question 5

Biculturalism

Answer 5

You have both your own culture and you’ve mastered a culture elsewhere

Question 6

Power Distance

Answer 6

Who has power over another in a cultural group

Question 7

What are some attributes of culture?

Answer 7

• learned
• resistant to change
• (but also changing and adapting?(
• shared beliefs, values and behaviors
• transmitted across generations

Question 8

What is ethnicity?

Answer 8

Shared feeling of people hood among a group of individuals.

-sharing cultural patterns that create a common history that is resistant to change.

Question 9

How is ethnicity different from race?

Answer 9

Ethnicity is based on cultural membership. Ie, the Amish have a shared history.

Question 10

What is race

Answer 10

A social construct that categorizes and divides people based on physical characteristics

-shared features

Question 11

Why should we know about the biology of race?

Answer 11

There are certain traits that are heritable.

Ways that we metabolize medications might be different.

Dark skin bruises differently than light skin.

Question 12

What is Bias?

Answer 12

To be partial towards a subject/person/race/etc

Question 13

Prejudice

Answer 13

Disapproving or negative attitude not rooted in fact or accurate information

(Feeling of dislike and a belief in this dislike)

Question 14

Stereotype

Answer 14

a uniform image projected onto a particular group (or embraced by a particular group?)

Question 15

Racism

Answer 15

A system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks.

Institutionalize of discrimination that is perpetuated in society.

Question 16

What are the three levels of racism?

Answer 16

Institutionalized (systemic, societal racism)

Personally-mediated (racism between individuals)

Internalized (negative feelings about oneself, or you’ve internalized the beliefs of society and applied it to your own life).

Question 17

Microaggressions

Answer 17

Brief/commonplace verbal, behavioral, environmental indignities that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights/insults to target person or group

Question 18

Microinsults

Answer 18

Behavioral/verbal remarks (can be conscious or unconscious) that convey rudeness, insensitivity, and demean a person’a racial heritage and identity.

Subtle
Frequently unknown

Question 19

Microassaults

Answer 19

Explicit racial derogations characterized by a violent verbal or nonverbal attack

(Old fashioned racism)

Question 20

Microinvalidation

Answer 20

Verbal comments or behaviors that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings or experiential reality of a person of color

Question 21

Microinequities

Answer 21

Pattern of being overlooked, under respected and devalued because of race or gender

Question 22

How to overcome your biases

Answer 22

Acknowledge, then move towards the groups that make you uncomfortable

Question 23

Privilege is…

Answer 23

Always in relation to others

Always at someone else’s expense

Always exacts a cost

Question 24

What are the three basic principles that a system of privilege is organize around?

Answer 24

Dominance (a particular group is dominant)

Identification (with the dominant group by both the dominant and non dominant people)

Centeredness- everything is centered around the dominant group

Question 25

What privilege does the privileged group receive?

Answer 25

The status of that person in society is identified with power.

• identify with the power as a value.
• easier to use power in relation to others.
• identified with privilege
• used as the standard of comparison - best that society has to offer

-focus of positive attention
(Those not in the center receive negative media attention)

Question 26

Discrimination

Answer 26

Prejudice plus actions that harm those you have prejudice against.

Question 27

Is prejudice the same thing as racism?

Answer 27

No, someone can have prejudice against a specific group (ie, an oppressed group might dislike a dominant group because of rooted history), but that doesn’t make it racism.

Question 28

How is racism self-reinforcing?

Answer 28

Institutional racism in one sector reinforces it in other sectors.

Forms large, interconnected system of structural racism.

Question 29

Examples of institutionalized racism (definition)?

Answer 29

Differential access to the goods, services and opportunities of society based on race.

Policies and practices

Mutually reinforcing systems

Explains the association between social class and race.

Examples:

Housing, education, employment, income, medical facilities, clean environment, information, resources voice.

Question 30

Jim Crow laws

Answer 30

Required schools and medical facilities to be racially segregated

Certain neighborhoods white-only

Question 31

An employer is screening applications based on applicants’ zip codes. What is this an example of?

Answer 31

Structural racism/Institutional racism

Question 32

Social Security Act of 1935

Answer 32

Created a system of employment based old-age insurance and employment compensation. However, it excluded agricultural workers and domestic servants (typically black men and women)

This was done to secure the democrats of the south so they could pass the social security act.

Entrenchment of racial economic inequities.

Question 33

War on Drugs

Answer 33

“The new Jim Crow”

Policies stereotyped black Americans as drug addicts

Rate of incarceration of black men (legacy of these policies). 1 in 3.

Question 34

Redlining

Answer 34

Term originated from 1934 federal housing administration - marking maps with red lines to delineate neighborhood where mortgages were denied to marginalized, racialized groups - so they wouldn’t live in white neighborhoods.

Now an explanation of housing discrimination and segregation of black americans — ALSO associated with adverse birth outcomes, increased exposure to pollutants, decreased longevity, increased risk of chronic disease, increase rates of crime.

Affects health care access and quality

Question 35

Segregation of housing, schools and workplaces is an example of:

Answer 35

Economic injustice and social deprivation