Chapter 5: Power, Privilege, & Oppression

Question 1

Marginalization

Answer 1

Condition/process that excludes people and groups from full participation in social, economic, and political life enjoyed by wider society

Question 2

Disenfranchisement

Answer 2

When a person or group is deprived of legitimate rights, privileges, and/or immunities

Question 3

Audism

Answer 3

Oppressive attitudes demonstrated by some people, organizations, businesses towards Deaf people. Based on pathological thinking resulting in negative stigma. Associated with hearing privilege. Affects Deaf people by oppression, ambivalence, fatalism/passivity, horizontal violence, emotional dependence on oppressor, and fear of freedom

Question 4

Lipread

Answer 4

Decoding text from speaker’s mouth movements. Very difficult, especially w/o context

Question 5

Privilege

Answer 5

Unearned benefits of people in a specific social group. Hearing privilege, male, white, etc

Question 6

Sense of Entitlement

Answer 6

Belief that someone deserves resources that others don’t

Question 7

Social Inequality

Answer 7

Where minoritized groups have unequal opportunities, limited jobs, fewer rewards than majority group

Question 8

Uninitiated

Answer 8

People who have little to no knowledge/experience/understanding of Deaf community/culture

Question 9

Medical Model

Answer 9

Views of Deaf people as having a pathological, audiological condition. “Deafness, hearing impaired, etc”

Question 10

Ally

Answer 10

Supporter of Deaf people on their liberation and equality journey

Question 11

Normalize

Answer 11

Done by medical/education professions to “assimilate” Deaf people into society by way of oral method and amplification. No signing, use of lipreading and speaking

Question 12

Oral Program

Answer 12

Focus in schools on residual hearing, speaking, and lipreading

Question 13

Ethnocultural Identity

Answer 13

Behavioral elements of ethnic identity (language, attitudes, values( and the degree to which someone approves and practices a way of life. Here, used in the context of how many hearing parents of Deaf children not having shared language

Question 14

Benefactors

Answer 14

People who think the Deaf community is in need of their rescue, so they “help.” Paternalism, need for approval, pejorative view

Question 15

Learned Helplessness

Answer 15

Psychological phenomenon where people learn to believe they are helpless, caused by desire to “protect” Deaf people. Detrimental environment with lower expectations, less incidental learning, etc

Question 16

Cultural View of Deaf people

Answer 16

Normal, capable human beings encountering life in a different- yet acceptable way, conforming w/ norms and behaviors based on visual/non-hearing norms

Question 17

Becoming an Ally

Answer 17

Learn about oppression/help others understand it, recognize you may be part of the problem, listen to and believe, don’t take on leadership role, develop and maintain friendships