Final

Question 1

An adjective derived from AAVE meaning “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination”

Answer 1

Woke

Question 2

The failure of an organized social group to realize its group ideals, through the inability to adapt a certain desired line of action to given conditions of life.

Answer 2

A Social Problem

Question 3

Obtained when blacks see themselves through the pitying and contemptuous eyes of the racially prejudiced whites.

Answer 3

Double Consciousness

Question 4

A vast family of human beings, generally of common blood and language, always of common history, traditions, and impulses, who are both voluntarily and involuntarily striving together for the accomplishment of certain vividly conceived ideals of life.

Answer 4

Race

Question 5

A privileged position of social standing that has:
- Afforded white workers compensation for their low economic wages.
- Formed the basis of a cross-class, political alliance uniting white workers and capitalists against black workers.

Answer 5

Whiteness

Question 6

One’s specific political judgement support one’s more general political convictions which support one’s very abstract beliefs about the political world.

Answer 6

Reflective Equilibrium

Question 7

Humans are not irredeemably self-centered, dogmatic, or driven by what Hobbes called, “a perpetual and restless desire of power after power”. Humans have at least the capacity for genuine toleration and mutual respect.

Answer 7

Rawl’s View of Human Nature

Question 8

Each person has the same indefeasible claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic liberties, which scheme is compatible with the same scheme of liberties for all.

Answer 8

1st Principle of Justice

Question 9

Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions:
- They are to be attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity.
- They are to be the greatest benefit of the least-advantaged members of society.

Answer 9

2nd Principle of Justice

Question 10

A subset of the basic liberties, concerned with the right to hold public office, the right to affect the outcome of national elections, etc.

Answer 10

Political Liberties

Question 11

A fair situation in which equal citizens is represented as only a free and equal citizen. Each representative wants only what free and equal citizens want, and each tries to agree to principles for the basic structure white fairly situated with respect to other representatives.

Answer 11

The Original Position

Question 12

Prevents arbitrary facts about citizens from influencing the agreement among their representatives.

Answer 12

The Veil of Ignorance

Question 13

Refers to the structural phenomena that immobilize or reduce a group.

Answer 13

Oppression

Question 14

To share with others a way of life that defines a person’s identity and by which other people identify him or her.

Answer 14

Group

Question 15

Are people the system of labor markets cannot or will not employ

Answer 15

Marginals

Question 16

Describes the lives of people who have little or no work autonomy, exercise little creativity or judgment in their work, have no technical expertise or authority, express themselves awkwardly, especially in public or bureaucratic settings, and do not command respect.

Answer 16

Powerlessness

Question 17

Consists in the universalization of one group’s experience and culture and its establishment as the norm.

Answer 17

Cultural Imperialism

Question 18

Random, unprovoked attacks on their persons or property, which have no motive but to damage, humiliate, or destroy them.

Answer 18

Violence

Question 19

Domination that occurs through a steady process of the transfer of the results of the labor of some people to benefit others.

Answer 19

Exploitation

Question 20

Exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence.

Answer 20

Five faces of oppression