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Social Justice and Civil Rights Flashcards

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What is Social Justice?

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  • The level of Fairness that exists in human relationships

- Many issues that SW confront are directly related to a lack of social justice, or injustice.

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Injustice can be defined as:

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Coercively established or maintained inequalities, discrimination, and dehumanizing, development-inhibiting conditions of living imposed by dominant social groups, classes, and peoples upon dominated and exploited groups, and classes and people.

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Barriers to Social Justice

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  • Prejudice
  • Discrimination
  • Institutional Discrimination
  • Oppression
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Prejudice

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An attitude that involves judging groups and individuals based on myths and misconceptions

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Discriminations

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In an action that involves treating people differently based on their membership in a group

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Institutional Discrimination

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Occurs when discrimination is built into the norms and institutions in society and enforced by those in power

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Oppression

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Is systematic and pervasive mistreatment of people based on their membership in a certain group including

  • racism
  • sexism
  • classism
  • ableism
  • ageism
  • anti-semitism and other religious oppression
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Explanations of Social Injustice

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  • Biological Determinism
  • Social and economic status is biologically determined
  • People achieve a certain social and economic status based on innate biological characteristics
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The Socialization Process

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  • People learn from observation

- Children do what they see their parents and other adults do

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Psychological Perspectives

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  • Bias is caused by psychological conditions such as fear of the unknown
  • Also includes scapegoating and projection
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Sociological perspectives

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  • Scarce resources and economic insecurity cause conflict between groups
  • Discrimination and oppression serve economic purposes and benefit those in power
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Models Of Intergroup Relations

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  • Melting Pot
  • Cultural Pluralism
  • Separatism
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Melting Pot

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Exposure to the mass media and a common education system would cause all those living in the US to lose their cultural uniqueness and become “Americans”
-Loss of Identity

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Cultural Pluralism

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People retain their unique cultural characteristics while they mix socially and economically with other groups

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Separatism

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Groups live in the same country but do things as separately as possible

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Civil Rights

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  • Rights to which people are entitled because they are members of a society
  • these rights afford protection from discrimination and oppression
  • throughout history oppressed groups have been denied equal access to political, social, and economic institutions
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7 Protection from Discrimination

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  • 14th amendment 1868
  • 15th amendment 1870
  • 19th amendment 1920
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968
  • Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1967
  • Americans with Disabilities Act 1990
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14th Amendment

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  • 1868

- No state may “Deny any person it’s jurisdiction the equal protection of the law”

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15th Amendment

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  • 1870

- Gave all men, regardless of age race or color, the right to vote

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19th Amendment

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  • 1920

- Gave women the right to vote

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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-Outlaws discrimination and/or segregation in public accommodation and employment on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin and differential treatment of people of color in voter registration

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Civil Rights Act of 1968

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Added protection against discrimination in housing

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Age Discrimination in Employment Act

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  • 1967
  • Protects employees who are 40 years old or over from unequal treatment at work based on age. Additional laws passed since to offer protection in education and benefits.
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Americans with Disabilities Act

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  • 1990
  • Outlaws discrimination against people with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, and public services
  • Requires “reasonable accommodation” for people with disabilities in work places and public facilities
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Affirmative Action

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  • designed to address past inequities in employment and education based on race and sex
  • Requires organization to develop plans to diversity their workforces and student bodies

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