Equity and Social Justice Exam Multiple Choice Flashcards
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
Oppression
Authority
Privilege
Post-Colonial Theory
Opression
Theoretical system to understand the nature of gender inequality
Post-Colonial Theory
Post-Modernism
Feminist Theory
Critical Race Theory
Feminist Theory
This theory examines imperialism and its effects on other nations.
Post-Colonial Theory
Feminist Theory
Gender Fluidity
Social Contract Theory
Post-Colonial Theory
The idea that members of certain dominant groups in society have been given greater access to materials and greater ability to succeed, based on their membership within that dominant group.
Privilege
Racism
Dehumanization
Indigenous Knowledge
Privilege
This type of dehumanization emphasizes that the group being dehumanized possesses traits that lower the group’s value level down to that of an animal.
Animalistic
Psychosomatic
Mechanistic
Marxist
Animalistic
The type of dehumanization emphasizes that the group being dehumanized possesses more robotic traits and is, therefore, seen as less human.
Mechanistic
Animalistic
Fraudulent
Comprehensive
Mechanistic
These are derived from the inherent dignity of the human person and are defined internationally, nationally and locally by various law-making bodies.
Human Rights
Freedom
Legal Rights
Educational Differentiation
Human Rights
This is an identified set of specific institutionalized individual and collective behaviours which help explain how durable social structures in the social environment impact our daily lives.
Systemic Oppression
Microaggressions
Human Rights
Privilege
Systemic Oppression
This is a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favour of a new system.
Revolution
Cold War
Election
Social Activism
Revolution
This is the creation of meaning around ideas involving race, gender, class, etc…These attributes are not inherently meaningful, society gives them meaning.
Social Constructionism
Racism
Animalistic Dehumanization
Patriarchy
Social Constructionism
He was the dictator of Zaire. He loved funky leopard hats so much, he made it illegal for anyone else to wear them.
Idi Amin
Mobuto sese Seko
Kim Jung Un
Papa Doc
Mobuto sese Seko
Caused by mosquitoes, this disease has seen a decline in the last 4-5 years, but it still kills millions annually in Africa.
Influenze
Malaria
HIV
Chagas
Malaria
This term refers to the practice of ‘taking over’ a foreign country, and using its resources for your own benefit.
International Development
Property Management
Theft
Colonialism
Colonialism
The term used to describe the inability to purchase the basic necessities of existence.
Absolute Poverty
Relative Poverty
Distinguished Poverty
International Poverty
Absolute poverty
This group has been created in an attempt to remove trade barriers between countries.
WTO
WB
IMF
UN
WTO
The dictator of Uganda, he once claimed to be the King of Scotland.
Mobuto sese Seko
Idi Amin
Saddam Hussein
Baby Doc
Idi Amin
This disease is caused by water-borne parasites.
HIV
Chagas
Malaria
Cooties
Chagas
This historic fire was made worse by the lack of safety standards, and the non-existent fire escapes.
Triangle Shirtwaist
Rana Plaza
Yosemite Super Fire
The Great Fire of London
Triangle Shirtwaist
Marx divided society into: ______________.
Proletariat and Bourgeisoisie
Rich countries and poor countries
Educated and uneducated
Peaceful and violent
Proletariat and Bourgeisoisie
This practice involves companies and foreign countries taking some of the best real estate in a developing country, thus depriving the people of the right to use their country’s land.
Investment
Land-Grabbing
Colonization
Theft
Land-Grabbing
Seeds that cannot reproduce naturally were developed and were called:
Ingard
Terminator Seeds
Single Gen
Roundup Seeds
Terminator Seeds
Injecting chemical-laden water into the ground, to crack the rock layers and release natural gas, is called:
Strip Mining
Bitumen
Fracking
Drilling
Fracking
The Island that is disappearing into the ocean due to rising water levels is named:
Greenland
Long Island
Okinawa
Kiribati
Kiribati
Waste from the extraction process is stored in large pools, called
Taillings Ponds
Oil Pools
Groundwater Reservoirs
Storage Depots
Tailings pond
Liquid oil is not being extracted from the Oil sands in Alberta. What is being extracted is called:
Bitumen
Raw Hydrocarbons
Pollutive Extracts
Tar Sands
Bitumen
- After the area has been “fracked”,
mini earthquakes occured
tap water could be set on fire
farm animals started dying
all of the above
Mini earthquakes occurred
The first bottled water sold on the marketplace was:
Dasani
Pure Life
Perrier
Nestle
Perrier
Monsanto’s most well-known publicly sold, herbicide is called:
Roundup
GreenMachine
Agent Orange
Pentalamaicin
Roundup
The water in Flint, Michigan has been polluted with:
Mercury
Lead
Iron
Roundup
Lead
GMO Soy beans with brazil nut DNA caused:
Anaphylaxis
Cancer
Tumours in rats
Pollution
Anaphylaxis
