Privilege
This term describes the unearned advantages and rights granted to members of the dominant group.
What is privilege?
This term describes the oppression of people with disabilities.
What is ableism?
This term refers to the simultaneous experience of privilege and oppression depending on the specific context
What is intersecting identities?
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 describes the process by which individuals learn the norms, values, and practices of their culture.
What is socialization?
This term refers to the systematic conferral of dominance and institutional processes that make the beliefs and values of the dominant group normal and universal.
What is institutional privilege?
This term refers to the social and physical environment being set up to accommodate able-bodied people, giving them unearned advantages.
What is structural privilege?
This term describes the multidimensional nature of oppression and how different forms of oppression interact with each other.
What is multidimensional oppression?
This term refers to the belief that dominant group members are more qualified and deserving of their positions
What is internalized dominance?
This term refers to the ways in which social institutions, such as schools and media, reinforce dominant group norms and values.
What is institutional socialization?
This term describes the invisibility of privilege to those who have it, making it difficult for them to recognize their own advantages.
What is the invisibility of privilege?
This term describes the belief that people with disabilities are inferior and the societal structures that reinforce this belief.
What is internalized ableism?
This term refers to the way that different social group memberships, such as race, class, and gender, intersect to shape individual experiences.
What are intersecting social identities?
This term describes the acceptance of negative stereotypes about one's own group.
What is internalized racism?
This term describes the internalization of societal messages about one's own social group.
What is internalized socialization?
This term refers to the belief that one's group has the right to its position and the internalization of messages of superiority.
What is internalized dominance?
This term refers to the everyday slights and insults that people with disabilities endure from able-bodied people.
What are microaggressions?
This term describes the need to consider multiple forms of oppression in order to fully understand social inequality.
What is an intersectional analysis?
This term refers to the ways in which internalized oppression manifests in everyday behaviors and attitudes.
What are self-defeating behaviors?
This term refers to the ways in which socialization shapes our perceptions and behaviors in relation to different social groups.
What is cultural conditioning?
This term describes the lack of humility that results from limited knowledge of the minoritized group
What is arrogance?
This term describes the systematic exclusion of people with disabilities from full participation in society
What is social exclusion?
This term describes the idea that identity cannot be fully understood via a single lens, such as gender, race, or class alone.
What is intersectionality?
This term describes the process by which minoritized group members come to believe that they deserve their lower position in society.
What is internalized inferiority?
This term describes the process by which individuals come to accept and perpetuate the dominant group's norms and values.
What is cultural hegemony?