Class

Question 1

Critical Petagogy

Answer 1

In some ways the way that we have taught may not be the best. Divided power. Plantation like system of power within the college.

• Gives students more power in class to train them to feel power and be likely to create change outside the class setting. Reduces powerlessness.
• Critical thinking

Question 2

Social Justice Ed

Answer 2

• Focus on understand social power dynamics that result in some social groups having privilege status and access while others are denied disadvantaged, oppressed, and denied access
• Focus on individual and social action to eliminate oppression

Question 3

Sociological Imagination

Answer 3

• the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society
• Distinguishes between personal troubles and social issues
• (i can’t buy food/min wage is not high enough)
• allows you to locate yourself within social world
• clairify how life patterns align with world history and social trends

Question 4

why does social identity matter?

Answer 4

-what would you do? video clip on bike theft

Question 5

project implicit harvard

Answer 5

do you prefer white to black or citizen to non?

Question 6

Themes

Answer 6

Sex-Race-Class-Religion-Ability-Age-Gender

Question 7

Ask

Answer 7

What can I learn about the experience of others?
What can I learn about myself?
How does social identity effect our lifelong learning?
How does power effect individ place in society?
How does power differentials effect relationships?
How can I be the greatest help to people unlike me?

Question 8

Difference is not value free

Answer 8

Men and women— Different stratification
Weight, women in the workforce who were 20 lbs underweight made 20,000 more than those who weighed more. Men who were underweight made 8,000 less and then at normal weight until morbid obese pay did not go down again.

Question 9

every inch of height is worth

Answer 9

1.8% of additional waiges// tallest candidate will win

Question 10

Studying difference- multicultralism

Answer 10

women and racial groups… African American History/ Elanore Adams/ Clara Barton/ Rosa Parks… we only learn about these people within context, not in mainstream.

Question 11

Multicultural events focus on

Answer 11

food fun and festival- FFF

4th of july as that would make us look like jackasses. -drunk, loud and blow things up

Question 12

Limitations

Answer 12

we focus on social justice in the us

-this is only one way to understand

Question 13

Identity

Answer 13

How we see ourselves in relation to others or

-an individual comprehensive understanding of themselves

Question 14

Identity is Based on

Answer 14

• individual decisions
• collective constructions
• social impositions

Question 15

What factors shape identity?

Answer 15

-race, gender, (if you have a same sex sibling they look the exact same as you, but that is the social identity, not self identity)

Question 16

Ericksons concept of an “identity crisis” and it’s links to identity development.

Answer 16

…

Question 17

Cycle of Liberation pg 620.

Answer 17

Waking up
Getting Ready
Reaching Out (interpersonal)
Building community
Coalescing
Creating Change
Maintaining
(Cycle over)

Question 18

Waking up 3 factors

Answer 18

• empowerment of self
• Gaining Inspiration
• Dismantling

Question 19

empowerment of self

Answer 19

• introspection
• education
• consensious raising

Question 20

Gaining Inspiration

Answer 20

• authenticity

- connections

Question 21

Dismantling

Answer 21

• -Diminishing beliefs
• conclusion
• privilege
• interpersonalized oppression
• developing analysis and tools

Question 22

Reaching out 2 factors

Answer 22

Movement of self toward others and taking a stand, seeking experience and exposure and naming injustice

taking a stand, using tools exploring and experimenting.

Question 23

Building Community

Answer 23

Working with others. A people “like us” for support BPeople different than us for building coalitions questioning assumptions rules roles and structures

Question 24

Can the cycle of socialization be disrupted?

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

Cultural Imperialism

Answer 25

Invisible and different
Book definition = experiencing ones self as invisible at the same time as one is marked as being different. Invisibility comes when dominant groups do not recognize perspective embodied in their cultural expression. – pg 43

Question 26

Privilege

Answer 26

is when one group has things of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to (identity). Rather than anything they have done or failed to do– pg 17

Question 27

Maintaining structural inequality

Answer 27

Normalizing power and privilege of dominant groups