This theory is interested in ways that people use power to resist or create change.
What is conflict theory?
100
This term describes the conditions in which minority culture subordinates and gives up their way of life – taking on the dominant culture’s views and characteristics (seen as a sell-out by those more bicultural or traditional).
What is assimilation?
100
The development of this type of reasoning is inseparably tied to the developmental maturation of cognitive capacities during childhood and adolescence.
What is moral reasoning?
100
In this theory, defense mechanisms occur when the ego experiences internal danger. It defends itself with a variety of defense mechanisms aimed at repression.
What is psychodynamic theory?
100
This theorist stressed that children actively construct their own cognitive worlds and that children are not passive learners, yet the environment has an important effect on biological development and maturation.
Who is Piaget?
200
This theory incorporates a holistic view that interrelationships exist between material, social, intellectual, and spiritual facets of human experience.
What is feminist theory?
200
This type of reasoning from a specific case to derive a general rule or theory. It draws inferences from observations and analysis in order to make generalizations and establish theory. In other words, an initial observation leads to the discovery of certain patterns.
What is inductive reasoning?
200
This theory suggests that deviance is a social and not psychological phenomenon and that deviance is a matter of social definition.
What is labeling theory?
200
In this theory, meaning is not discovered, but constructed and only develops when engaged with consciousness.
What is social constructionism?
200
In this facet of cultural theory, human experience is characterized not only by differences, but by commonality and unity---a person is able to relate comfortably and competently in many cultural contexts while appreciating both differences and commonalities.
What is transculturality?
300
In this theory, each stage of development is characterized by a crisis in which ego assists individuals in attaining a balance in a series of alternative basic attitudes, i.e., trust and mistrust.
What is Life Span Theory?
300
This is a mark of disgrace (either literal or figurative) attached to characteristics or behaviors that are defined as undesirable in a given society.
What is stigma?
300
This theory includes empowerment, Conflict (oppression) theory, recognizes the existence of multiple experienced realities, and maintains that there is “unity in diversity.”
What is feminist theory?
300
This type of conditioning emphasizes learning that occurs on the basis of association, when a naturally satisfying stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus.
What is classical conditioning?
300
This controversial theorist saw conflict as desirable and that it propels social action against oppression and generates social change.
Who is Karl Marx?
400
In this theory, systems are simultaneously a part and a whole.
What is systems theory?
400
This is a process of increasing awareness of how political structures affect individual and group experience and contribute to personal and group powerlessness .
What is critical consciousness?
400
In this level of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg, children abide by certain standards (internal), but they are standards of others (external), such as parents or laws of society.
What is Level 2—Conventional Reasoning?
400
In this theory, the mind is made up of three parts: unconscious, preconscious and conscious. What is psychodynamic theory?
What is psychodynamic theory?
400
In systems theory, this term is used to describe the larger environment.
What is suprasystem?
500
In this theory, individuals and groups gain power, access to resources and control over their own lives.
What is Empowerment?
500
This type of reasoning uses an assumed hypothesis or theory and applies it to a certain case, as they assume that the law is true. In other words, a researcher starts with a wider theory.
What is deductive reasoning?
500
Identity involves shared significant symbols or shared meanings that emerge in the process of interaction with others.
What is symbolic interactionism?
500
This type of conditioning stresses the importance of reinforcement.
What is operant conditioning?
500
In theories of culture and oppression, this perspective suggests that life in the context of minority persons can be viewed within two separate contexts, the nurturing system and the sustaining system.