Oppression

Question 1

Authoritarian power can also be referred to as?

Answer 1

State approved power.

Question 2

What are the three kinds of authoritarian power?

Answer 2

Traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational.

Question 3

What is traditional power?

Answer 3

Certain individuals have power because of custom or heredity.

Question 4

What are examples of traditional power?

Answer 4

Monarchs or tribe leaders.

Question 5

What is charismatic power?

Answer 5

Individuals have authority, which they gain through their popularity with the public.

Question 6

Authoritarian leaders who gain charismatic power usually come in a time of…

Answer 6

Crisis.

Question 7

What are examples of authoritarian leaders who used charismatic power?

Answer 7

Hitler in the 1930’s and 40’s and Mussolini from the 1920’s to the 40’s.

Question 8

What is legal-rational power?

Answer 8

Authority that is based on the rule of law, bureaucracies, and modern institutions such as courts, constitutions, and legislations.

Question 9

Those who obtain legal-rational power are required to ___ to the rules and regulations of the institutions which they run.

Answer 9

Conform.

Question 10

Who challenged the way we think about power?

Answer 10

Michel Foucault.

Question 11

Foucault said that “We never stand outside of power, but instead are ___ by it”.

Answer 11

Created.

Question 12

Foucault said that power is an ___.

Answer 12

Entity.

Question 13

According to Foucault, power regulates everything er think and do- this kind of power creates ___ and ___ in our society.

Answer 13

Knowledge, truth.

Question 14

Foucault claimed that everything we believe to be true has been created by humans. This means that truth…

Answer 14

Can be changed.

Question 15

Give an example of the power of normal.

Answer 15

Men are not to wear dresses or paint their nails.

Question 16

What are Iris Marion Young’s 5 faces of oppression?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Young’s 5 faces of oppression explores how oppression exists in ___ societies from a ___ point of view.

Answer 17

Liberal, structural.

Question 18

Oppression can be so ___ it is hard to see sometimes.

Answer 18

Engrained.

Question 19

A social group is a collection of people. Is this statement true or false?

Answer 19

False. A social group is more than a collection of people.

Question 20

Members of a social group have shared ___ but also a shared sense of ___.

Answer 20

Characteristics, identity.

Question 21

Other commonalities between members of a social group include:

Answer 21

• History.
• Social status.
• Relationship with external groups.

Question 22

Exploitation occurs through a steady process of the ___ of the results of labour of one social group to ___ another.

Answer 22

Transfer, benefit.

Question 23

Marginalization

Answer 23

The act of relegating or confining a group of people to a lower social standing or outer limit or edge of society.

Question 24

Why is marginalization possibly the most dangerous form of oppression?

Answer 24

It prevents an entire social group from participating in a society and can cause material deprivation and extermination.

Question 25

Deeming a social group ‘___ ___’ can lead to marginalization.

Answer 25

Less than.

Question 26

Excluding a group from participating in the ___ realm can lead to marginalization.

Answer 26

Social.

Question 27

___ the voices of a marginalized group can lead to marginalization.

Answer 27

Silencing.

Question 28

Not allowing social groups to have their ___ met can lead to marginalization.

Answer 28

Needs.

Question 29

Cycle of marginalization denies the means to demand ___.

Answer 29

Representation.

Question 30

Who are the powerless?

Answer 30

• Those who lack authority or power to decide policies or results.
• Those over whom power is exercised without their exercising it.
• Those who must take orders and rarely have the right to give them.

Question 31

How does ‘power over’ relate to oppression?

Answer 31

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Question 32

How does ‘power to’ relate to oppression?

Answer 32

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Question 33

Cultural Imperialism has two components: what are they?

Answer 33

Rendering invisible and othering.

Question 34

Rendering invisible (in the context of oppression)

Answer 34

When dominant groups’ values are the only ones reflected and heard.

Question 35

Othering (in the context of oppression)

Answer 35

Rendering marginalized groups deviant, abnormal if they dare to challenge the universality of the dominant group.

Question 36

In oppression, is violence simply overt or also systemic?

Answer 36

Violence is systemic.

Question 37

In oppression, violence as a systemic force is explored. This includes violence between ___ ___, and violence as ___, and to be expected.

Answer 37

Social groups, normalized.