Week Two Flashcards
Absolute Poverty
A dollar value that is firmly set; anyone who earns less than that amount is officially categorized as poor
Relative Poverty
Uses comparisons to determine who is poor and who is not. begins with agreement about the level of economic resources the average person should have and then uses that standard to determine who has enough and who does not.
Poverty Threshold
The poverty line; the absolute measure the federal and state governments use to define poverty.
When did the SSA (Social Security Administration) set the Poverty Line?
1963
Juvenilization of Poverty
The tendency for children to disproportionately represented in the ranks of those who are poor.
Feminization of Poverty
Poverty is more likely to happen to women than to men.
Culture of Poverty
People learn to be poor from growing up in impoverished areas.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Provides cash assistance for people who are poor and are 65 or older, or blind, or disabled. Created in 1935 as separate programs, and then consolidated in 1972
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Evolved out of 1996 policy changes to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Limited to 24 consecutive months and a life-time total of five years.
Devolution Services
The movement of programs from the federal level to the state level.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Originated in the 1930s as an agricultural support effort in which the government purchased food that growers could not sell and gave the food to people in need. Changed from the Food Stamp Program to SNAP in 2008
Political Advocacy
Knowledge of the public policy process, how legislators create policy, and where in that process intervention can take place.
Hate Crimes
People being victimized because of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability, or gender or gender identity.
Social Justice
The level of fairness that exists in human relationships.
Injustice
Coercively established and maintained inequalities, discrimination, and dehumanizing, development-inhibiting conditions of living, imposed by dominant social groups, classes, and peoples upon dominated and exploited groups, classes, and people.
Prejudice
An attitude that involves judging or disliking groups and individuals based on myths and misconceptions.
Discrimination
An action that involves treating people differently, usually by denying them something based on their membership in a group.
Opression
Systematic and pervasive mistreatment of people based on their membership in a certain group. it restricts people’s opportunities, life chances, beliefs in what they can be, and self-determination.
Institutional Discrimination
Occurs when discrimination is built into the norms and institutions in society and is enforced by those in power.
Racism
Systematic mistreatment of people based on race; institutionalized and perpetrated by members of groups who have power or control over society and its institutions.
Sexism
Oppression that grows out of the belief that men are superior to women.
Heterosexism
Institutionalized bias directed at gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and people who are transgender; discrimination in housing and employment
Classism
Institutional and cultural attitudes and behaviors that stigmatize the poor and place a higher value on wealthier people.
Ableism
Oppression of people with disabilities
Ageism
The belief in the superiority of youth over age and the systematic oppression of people because they are older.
Anti-Semitism
Systematic discrimination against, or oppression, of Jews
Cis Normativity (Cisgender privilege)
Systemic advantages people who identify with their birth gender experience.
Privilege
