Power & Privilege
A subgroup existing within a society where the distinction relates to relative power and influence rather than size
This theory suggests that marginalized groups struggle to communicate within mainstream institutions because they must re-encode their thoughts.
What is 'muted group theory'
Antonio Gramsci uses this term to describe how a ruling class manipulates society's values so their own worldview becomes the accepted common sense norm.
What is cultural hegemony
Michael Hecht's model describes identity as constructed and fluid through this process.
What is the communication theory of identity
In literacy instruction, a students cultural background and life experience form this cognitive mental framework essential for building comprehension.
What is schema
Metaphor representing cultural pluralism where distinct identities are retained.
What is the salad or mixed stew
This variety of English, sometimes called Ebonics, developed as a distinct linguistic system among African Americans navigating dominant language structures.
What is African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
Adrian Holliday argues that Western concepts of culture treat the foreign individual as this kind of ''other''
what is culturally deficient
In Hecht's framework, this dimension refers to how many people hold a particular identity
What is scope
When students draw on prior knowledge to generate understanding, they are relying on this cognitive process
What is top-down processing
This term describes a set of unearned social, cultural, and economic benefits that white people experience in societies shaped by racial disparities
What is 'white privilege'
Version of German that integrates Turkish terms.
What is Kiezdeutsch (also kanaksprach)
Kluckhohn & Strodtbeck's value orientation taxonomy evaluates whether a society views time as past, present, or this-oriented.
What is future-oriented
This dimension refers to how important a specific identity is in a person's mind at a given moment
what is salience
What is comprehension will tank
In this documentary, white US Americans identify as 'Americans', while minority groups use hyphenated terms.
What is the Color of Fear
An NPR story of a black woman adopted into a white Canadian family who loved havy metal illustrated that identity cannot be predicted by this
What is a cultural stereotype (or monlithic cultural expectations)
Mainstream US culture historically assumes humans dominate nature, whereas traditional Indian philosophy emphasizes harmony and this concept of the right way of living.
What is dharma
In social identity theory, automatically favoring members of one's own group while viewing outside groups negatively is called this
What is in-group bias & out-group negativity
According to Adrian Holliday and critical literacy frameworks, teaching reading cannot be neutral because language and texts are embedded in unequal politics and this system of power and belief
What is ideology
This microculture participates in-group marriage
What is endogamy
This traditional period allows Amish youth to temporarily step outside of church rules and experience the ''English" world.
What is rumspringa
This French term refers to strict governmental and educational secularity, cited in controversial policies banning visible religious symbols or veils in public schools.
What is laicite
These groups, which an individual may not currently belong to but aspire to join or political action groups we agree with, help shape social identity
What are reference groups
This largely voluntary affiliation with a particular ethnic group only surfaces in particular contexts (celebrations of holidays -oktoberfest, st. patricks day)
what is Symbolic Ethnicity