Vocabulary

Question 1

Hegemony

Answer 1

Exercise of power; indirectly through ideas, ideology, and life view that supports the existing social structure, those in power, stratification

Question 2

Community of sufferers

Answer 2

Emergent, sharing (integrative, therapeutic), disintegration

Question 3

Situated Access

Answer 3

Where people with disabilities ended up (i.e. the floor they were on in the shelter, which shelter they were in, ability to travel to assistance distribution area, etc.) had an influence on what information or supplies they had access to; their access to disaster-related relief was “situated” in their standpoint as a person with disabilities - woman with rheumatoid arthritis : “I can be without food. I cannot be without my medication”

Question 4

Institutional Racism

Answer 4

Racism embedded in social structures and systems and is reflected, for example, in residential segregation and political marginalization

Question 5

Functional and access needs

Answer 5

During a disaster, certain at-risk individuals, specifically those with access and functional needs, have required additional response assistance before, during, and after an incident; these additional considerations for at-risk individuals with access and functional needs are vital towards inclusive planning for the whole community, and have been mandated for inclusion in federal, state, and local public health emergency plans

Question 6

Communities of fate

Answer 6

Typically poor neighborhoods who have fewer resources to defend themselves against crime and other social/natural injuries

Question 7

Axes of variation

Answer 7

Balance or shifting that occurs after a disaster; culture and its values always have contradictions to allow change and challenge; culture is a plastic meaning, it is flexible but not simple - it’s shaped and can be changed

Question 8

Compounded fear

Answer 8

Additional fears beyond those that the wider disaster-affected population was commonly expressed

Question 9

Literacy

Answer 9

The ability of people to speak, listen, read, write, and think; literacy is a dynamic and comprehensive concept - focuses on communication, as well as culture, politics, economics, religion, etc. serves as a source of power that influences social interactions

Question 10

Document literacy

Answer 10

Find information through documents (complete a form)

Question 11

Prose literacy

Answer 11

Read, analyze, comprehend, synthesize texts (read)

Question 12

Visual literacy

Answer 12

Comprehend ideas transmitted through images and figures

Question 13

Compound vulnerabilities

Answer 13

Language and literacy difficulties often intersect with other social vulnerabilities (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, class, and poverty)

Question 14

Semantics

Answer 14

The relationship between signs and the denotata (the things which they endow with meaning) - can help us understand the gap between how people perceive hazard, risk, and disasters and how these phenomena are in scientific terms

Question 15

Syntactics

Answer 15

The relationship among signs in formal structures - can help us understand how the representation of disasters is codified by the groups and cultures involved; this is the shorthand interpretation of risk and impact for the purposes of rapid reaction, the language of response to hazard

Question 16

Pragmatics

Answer 16

The relationship between signs and their effect on people who use them - can help us understand the feedback between the symbolic representations of disastrous phenomena, risk and extreme events and the meanings that both result from and generate these models