Social Justice Concepts
This term describes the prejudice and discrimination of one social group against another, backed by institutional power.
What is oppression?
This concept refers to the internalization and acting out of the constant messages that you and your group are superior to the minoritized group
What is internalized dominance?
This historical event exemplifies how men, as a group, held institutional power and granted women the right to vote
What is women's suffrage?
This term describes the process of assigning unequal value to different social groups, such as men and women.
What is social stratification?
This term captures the all-encompassing dimensions of white privilege, dominance, and assumed superiority in mainstream society
What is white supremacy?
This term refers to the systematic exploitation of one social group to the benefit of another.
What is social stratification?
This term describes the imposition of dominant group ideology onto everyone in society.
What is hegemony?
This term describes the historical accumulation and ongoing use of institutional power and authority that supports discriminatory behaviors in systemic and far-reaching ways.
What is institutional racism?
This term refers to the group that is positioned as more valuable in a social hierarchy.
What is the dominant group?
This term describes the systematic exploitation of one social group to the benefit of another.
What is social stratification?
This term describes the internalization and acting out of the constant messages that you and your group are inferior to the dominant group.
What is internalized oppression?
This term refers to the ability to influence and control the ideas, ideologies, and social rules of a society.
What is power?
This historical period marked the beginning of the systematic exploitation of African peoples for labor in the United States.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
This term describes the group that is positioned as less valuable in a social hierarchy.
What is the minoritized group?
This term refers to the internalization and acting out of the constant messages that you and your group are inferior to the dominant group.
What is internalized oppression?
This term refers to the ability of the dominant group to impose its ideology on everyone in society.
What is hegemony?
This concept explains how the dominant group maintains power by imposing their ideology on everyone.
What is ideological domination?
This historical event involved the forced removal and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
What is Japanese American internment?
This term refers to the social, economic, and political systems that maintain the unequal distribution of power and resources among social groups.
What is structural inequality?
This term describes the process by which the dominant group's culture is imposed on the minoritized group.
What is cultural imperialism?
This term describes the process by which the dominant group's culture is imposed on the minoritized group.
What is cultural imperialism?
This term describes the process by which the dominant group rationalizes and normalizes their superior position in society.
What is normalization?
This term refers to the legal and institutional exclusion of peoples of color from wealth-building programs in the mid-20th century.
What is redlining?
This term describes the process by which the dominant group's norms and values are imposed on the minoritized group.
What is cultural hegemony?
This term refers to the ability of the dominant group to impose its ideology on everyone in society.
What is hegemony?