Terms to Know

Question 1

Peace Power

Answer 1

• Capacity to be in harmony with others & with the earth.
• Uses collective energies towards a future
• Feminist Ideal
• Don’t deny values associated w/ power, but its how you achieve your goal individually/group and how you get there TOGETHER

Question 2

Power Over

Answer 2

• Hiarachy, one person imposes their will on someone else
• Can apply sanctions if they oppose
• One people have power over get caught up and behave as if any measure is necessary to retain that power and is justifiable.

Question 3

Empowerment

Answer 3

• facilitating & enabling someone to develop and use the tools they need to do for themselves
• growth of personal strength, power and ability to enact one’s own will
• love for self and respect for others
• grows from active engagement with others with shared values

Question 4

3 processes before empowerment can occur

Answer 4

• respectful
• trusting relationships
• willingness to accept change, communication, negotiating skills, willingness to surrender or transfer power, personal capacity for growth, self-determination…autonomy, power, influence, participation in decision making.

Question 5

Oppression

Answer 5

• Discrimination backed up by structural/systemic power

- Based on concepts from the cycle of oppression

Question 6

Power

Answer 6

• capacity & ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or events
• There are 3 kinds (structural, societal/cultural, political & economic)

Question 7

Stereotype

Answer 7

negative, exaggerated belief, fixed image or distorted idea held by persons/groups/economic decision makers that is embedded in and reinforced by oppressive power relations

Question 8

Powerlessness

Answer 8

Lack of power, strength, effectiveness

Question 9

Prejudice

Answer 9

A way of thinking based on stereotypes

Question 10

Discrimination

Answer 10

action/inaction based on prejudice

-made possible or implicitly/explicitly by oppressive power relations

Question 11

Vulnerability

Answer 11

An individual or community is somehow more prone to experiencing health inequalities

Question 12

Intersectionality

Answer 12

Interaction of impacts of various forms of oppression related to various groups

Question 13

Generalizations

Answer 13

Allows for little to no individual difference or social variation between persons

Question 14

Marginalization

Answer 14

to put/keep a person or group in a powerless position within society (ex: homeless population)

Question 15

Awareness

Answer 15

• Active, growing knowledge of self and others and the world
• means turning into the moment and valuing your own influence (being aware and exposing barriers that create inequality)

Question 16

Cooperation

Answer 16

• active commitment to group solidarity and group integration
• mutually defined objectives come from each individual’s viewpoint and abilities are honoured equally.
• moving away from power over
• encourages the use of individual abilities and ideas to joint on becoming whole.

Question 17

Evolvement

Answer 17

• Commitment to growth where change and transformation are conscious & deliberate
• group changes as circumstances shift