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
