Module 03: Respect for Diversity - Oppression, Power, & Liberation Flashcards
cultural competence
Possessing the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively work with members of a culture.
power over
The ability to compel or dominate others, control resources, and enforce commands.
deconstructing power and oppression
The reclaiming of power as liberation from oppression. Theoretical concepts such as empowerment and decolonization provide a baseline for community capacity building and self-determination.
nationality
A person’s status of belonging to a specific nation by birth or citizenship.
community systems approach
An approach that encompasses understanding the interrelated parts and dynamics of a community. Each part has its own organizing processes that influence, and in turn are influenced by, other parts. The total systems then are organized at a higher level that transcends the organizing process of any one part.
deconstruct
Deconstruction is a concept central to postmodernism. It is a process of rigorously analyzing and making apparent the assumptions, judgments, and values that underlie social arrangements and intellectual ideas.
spirituality
Focuses on an individual’s relationship with a higher power and a quest for meaning.
systems of domination
A “social order or pattern that has attained a certain state or property…and [owes] [its] survival to relatively self-activating social processes” (Jepperson, 1991, p. 145). In other words, institutions are enduring, historical facets of social life that shape our behavior. Examples of institutions include the family, marriage, media, medicine, law, education, the state, and work. These institutions can be said to structure thought and behavior, in that they prescribe rules for interaction and inclusion/exclusion and norms for behavior, parcel out resources between groups, and often times rely on formal regulations (including laws, policies, and contracts).
decolonial theory
As a revolutionary epistemology, decolonial theory and methods feature critical insights into knowledges from subaltern voices concerned with how the implementation of modern technologies shape colonial structures, inequalities, the daily lives of the colonized, and resistance strategies.
context
The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background, or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
community-based participatory research
Research that involves an exchange of resources and ideas between researchers and the community members as a way of understanding that is guided by community needs, also known as “participatory action research.”
religion
Shared systems of beliefs and values, symbols, feelings, actions, and experiences that often focus on relationships with the divine.
sex
Biological descriptor involving chromosomes and internal/external reproductive organs.
reclaiming of power
The process of claiming and redefining identities; the process can includes naming the places where one needs to take charge and act more powerfully, plan changes and take action that reconnect the person with their inherent power.
cultural humility
Ongoing process of learning about other cultures and being sensitive to cultural differences. Cultural humility includes acknowledging one’s own lack of knowledge about aspects of culture and recognizing power dynamics that impact the relationship.
exploitation
Exploitation occurs when one social group is able to take for itself what is produced by another group.
race
Social construct based on observable physical criteria, such as skin color or other physical features. Racial differences include economic, historical, and other social factors that contribute to a system of disadvantage and privilege.
ethnicity
One’s social identity based on culture of origin, ancestry, or affiliation with a cultural group.
power from
Is the ability to resist coercion and unwanted commands/demands.
culture
Dynamic concept of shared meanings and experiences that are passed down over time and generations. Culture includes shared beliefs, values, practices, definitions and other elements that are expressed through family socialization, formal schooling, shared language, social roles, and norms for feeling, thinking, and acting.
disabilities
Visible or hidden and temporary or permanent conditions that provide barriers or challenges, and impact individuals of every age and social group.
internalized racism
More than just a consequence of racism, internalized racism is a systemic oppression in reaction to racism that has a life of its own. In other words, just as there is a system in place that reinforces the power and expands the privilege of white people, there is a system in place that actively discourages and undermines the power of people and communities of color and mires us in our own oppression.
gender expression
A person’s external expression of being male, female, or other.
colonialism
The extension of a nation’s sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler colonies or administrative dependencies in which indigenous populations are directly ruled or displaced. Colonizing nations generally dominate the resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, and may also impose socio-cultural, religious, and linguistic structures on the conquered population.
gender identity
A person’s inner psychological sense of being male, female, or another category.
oppression
Oppression can be described as the collusion of dehumanization and exploitation.
aging
The developmental changes and transitions that comes with being a child, adolescent, or adult.
sexual orientation
A person’s emotional, romantic, erotic, and spiritual attractions toward another in relation to their own sex or gender.
respect for diversity
Acknowledgment, acceptance, and respect for the full range of human characteristics in their social, historical, and cultural contexts.
gender
Socially-constructed perceptions of what it means to be male or female in our society and how those genders may be reflected and interpreted by society.
colonial matrix of power
Described in four interrelated domains: control of economy (land appropriation, exploitation of labor, control of natural resources); control of authority (institution, army); control of gender and sexuality (family, education) and control of subjectivity and knowledge (epistemology, education, and formation of subjectivity).
power to
The ability of people to pursue personal and/or collective goals and to develop their own capacities.
intersectionality
An intersectional approach takes into account the historical, environmental, socio-cultural, and political context and recognizes the unique experience of the individual based on the intersection and implications of all relevant grounds.
social class
Social construct based on a person’s income or material wealth, educational status, and/or occupational status.
dehumanization
Involves redefining the targets of prejudice and violence by making them seem less human (that is, less civilized or less sentient) than other people.
privilege
Unearned advantages that individuals have based on membership in a dominant group.
disenfranchised
To deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity especially; to deprive of the right to vote.
