Words & Concepts
Systemic or Individual?
From the textbook
Your TAs
100

TRUE or FALSE - Race is a biological fact, not a social construct.

FALSE!

Race has no genetic basis; it's socially constructed.

100

A landlord refuses to rent to someone because of their race.

Individual racism

100

This is the belief that sports are inherently good, that this goodness is transmitted to the people who participate in it, and that sport leads to individual and community development

What is the great sport myth ?

100

How many TAs are there for SOCI 1001: Introduction to Sociology?

9! (8 tutorial TAs + 1 marking TA)

200

The idea that one's culture or way of life is superior to others is called what?

Ethnocentrism

200

A bank's leading policy results in fewer loans for racialized neighbourhoods.

Systemic racism (institutional racism)
200

This is a highly stereotypical form of manhood where physical dominance, violence towards women and sexual minorities, and sexual entitlement is regarded as "natural", normalized and even celebrated

What is toxic masculinity?

200

What is my name?

Anna

300

Believing that "I don't see colour" is an example of what type of thinking?

Colour-blind racism

300

Hiring mostly White teachers despite diverse student populations.

Systemic racism (institutional racism)

300

McKenzie and Joseph (2013) used the Coloured Hockey League to illustrate how Black bodies have been erased from hockey and national narratives. The documentation of this knowledge is termed what?

What are counter narratives?

400

As described by Bourdieu, is the material resources individuals are born into or acquire which is part of what informs our habitus 

Economic capital

400

How can policing practices appear neutral but still disproportionately affect racialized communities?

Neutral-seeming laws (like stop and frisk or traffic enforcement) can target neighbourhoods with historical segregation, producing disparate outcomes.

400

How are white supremacy and white privilege expressed in the "great sports myth"?

Many ways to answer: Who is sports great for? who gets to have the privilege to remove or detach themselves from political issues - esp involving race and racism. Example of Colin Kaepernick versus Sidney Crosby, and the criticisms (or lack of) faced. Who is sports great for?

500

Explain why the concept of 'colourblindness' can maintain systemic racism.

Ignoring race fails to address existing disparities and lets inequitable structures persist unchallenged.

500

A company implements a 'neutral' hiring algorithm trained on historical data. Is this individual or systemic bias, and why?

Systemic - the bias is embedded in the structure of the algorithm and reflects historical discrimination.

500

What does Anna research?

Systemic racism AND (OR) Political identities/belonging/consciousness

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