Oppression Flashcards
Authoritarian power can also be referred to as?
State approved power.
What are the three kinds of authoritarian power?
Traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational.
What is traditional power?
Certain individuals have power because of custom or heredity.
What are examples of traditional power?
Monarchs or tribe leaders.
What is charismatic power?
Individuals have authority, which they gain through their popularity with the public.
Authoritarian leaders who gain charismatic power usually come in a time of…
Crisis.
What are examples of authoritarian leaders who used charismatic power?
Hitler in the 1930’s and 40’s and Mussolini from the 1920’s to the 40’s.
What is legal-rational power?
Authority that is based on the rule of law, bureaucracies, and modern institutions such as courts, constitutions, and legislations.
Those who obtain legal-rational power are required to ___ to the rules and regulations of the institutions which they run.
Conform.
Who challenged the way we think about power?
Michel Foucault.
Foucault said that “We never stand outside of power, but instead are ___ by it”.
Created.
Foucault said that power is an ___.
Entity.
According to Foucault, power regulates everything er think and do- this kind of power creates ___ and ___ in our society.
Knowledge, truth.
Foucault claimed that everything we believe to be true has been created by humans. This means that truth…
Can be changed.
Give an example of the power of normal.
Men are not to wear dresses or paint their nails.
What are Iris Marion Young’s 5 faces of oppression?
Exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence.
Young’s 5 faces of oppression explores how oppression exists in ___ societies from a ___ point of view.
Liberal, structural.
Oppression can be so ___ it is hard to see sometimes.
Engrained.
A social group is a collection of people. Is this statement true or false?
False. A social group is more than a collection of people.
Members of a social group have shared ___ but also a shared sense of ___.
Characteristics, identity.
Other commonalities between members of a social group include:
- History.
- Social status.
- Relationship with external groups.
Exploitation occurs through a steady process of the ___ of the results of labour of one social group to ___ another.
Transfer, benefit.
Marginalization
The act of relegating or confining a group of people to a lower social standing or outer limit or edge of society.
Why is marginalization possibly the most dangerous form of oppression?
It prevents an entire social group from participating in a society and can cause material deprivation and extermination.
Deeming a social group ‘___ ___’ can lead to marginalization.
Less than.
Excluding a group from participating in the ___ realm can lead to marginalization.
Social.
___ the voices of a marginalized group can lead to marginalization.
Silencing.
Not allowing social groups to have their ___ met can lead to marginalization.
Needs.
Cycle of marginalization denies the means to demand ___.
Representation.
Who are the powerless?
- 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.
How does ‘power over’ relate to oppression?
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How does ‘power to’ relate to oppression?
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Cultural Imperialism has two components: what are they?
Rendering invisible and othering.
Rendering invisible (in the context of oppression)
When dominant groups’ values are the only ones reflected and heard.
Othering (in the context of oppression)
Rendering marginalized groups deviant, abnormal if they dare to challenge the universality of the dominant group.
In oppression, is violence simply overt or also systemic?
Violence is systemic.
In oppression, violence as a systemic force is explored. This includes violence between ___ ___, and violence as ___, and to be expected.
Social groups, normalized.
