Social Identity

Question 1

Oppression

Answer 1

Attitudes, behaviors, and pervasive and systemic social arrangements by which members of one group are exploited and subordinated while members of another group are granted privileges.

Question 2

Multidimensional Identity Model (MIM)

Answer 2

Two dimensions that address identification and the active or passive role in negotiating multiple identities – 4 options individuals may move among

Question 3

MIM Options

Answer 3

1. Society assigned
2. Conscious identification
3. Multiple aspects of self in a segmented fashion
4. Identity Intersection

Question 4

Privilege: 2 types

Answer 4

Unearned Entitlements

Conferred Dominance

Question 5

Unearned Entitlements

Answer 5

Privileges we should all possess, such as feeling safe in the workplace

Question 6

Conferred Dominance

Answer 6

Giving one group power over another

Question 7

Types of Privilege

Answer 7

White (Racial), Social Class, Gender, Heterosexual, Ability, and Christian

Question 8

Ableism

Answer 8

The pervasive system of discrimination and exclusion that oppresses people with disabilities on individual, institutional, and societal/ cultural levels

Question 9

Multiple Dimensions Identity Model

Answer 9

1. Core sense of self
2. Context within which identity occurs
3. Intersecting circles surrounding the core identity

Question 10

Model of Diversity Development

Answer 10

Unawareness
Dualistic Awareness
Questioning Self-Exploration
Risk Taking/ Other Exploration
Integrating/ Validating Others

Question 11

Unawareness/ Lack of exposure to the other

Answer 11

No knowledge or contact with others with whom they are unfamiliar

Question 12

Dualistic Awareness

Answer 12

Frames familiar difference as normal and unfamiliar difference as bad

Question 13

Questioning/ Self-exploration

Answer 13

When individuals reflect on feelings, thoughts and behaviors in relation to others

Question 14

Risk taking/ Exploration of otherness

Answer 14

Active engagement and confrontation of their own views of the world and entering the foreign world of unknown others.

Question 15

Integration/ Validation

Answer 15

Individuals see themselves as complex individuals and affirm members of many different groups.

Question 16

Cycle of Socialization

Answer 16

Beginning, first socialization, institutional and cultural socialization, enforcements, results, actions, directions for change

Question 17

Core

Answer 17

Fear, ignorance, confusion, insecurity

Question 18

Beginning

Answer 18

Born with mechanics in place, no blame, consciousness, guilt or choice

Question 19

First socialization

Answer 19

Taught on personal level by people we trust; this shapes expectations of norms, values, roles

Question 20

Institutional and cultural socialization

Answer 20

Reinforced with messages from institutions and culture

Question 21

Enforcements

Answer 21

Forces that influence socialization: sanctions, stigmas, rewards, punishments, privilege, discrimination, empowerment

Question 22

Results

Answer 22

Actions, thoughts, behaviors, feelings that result

Dissonance, guilt, enter, violence, crime, etc.

Question 23

Actions

Answer 23

Our decisions of how to respond

Do nothing, don’t make waves, promote status quo

Question 24

Directions for change

Answer 24

Change, raise consciousness, interrupt, educate, take a stand, questions, reframe

Question 25

Socialization Process

Answer 25

Pervasive 
Consistent
Circular
Self-perpetuating
Invisible