Difference
A way of understanding difference where _________ tend to have have more social and economic power than _________ who tend to have less economic and social power.
What are dominant groups and non-dominant groups?
A framework for analyzing power dynamics in society in order to make the world more equitable by focusing on the relationship between communication and structure. Answers how and why people comply with dominant belief systems and how they and their allies resist those systems.
What is Critical Theory
This an artificial construct that varies according to social, cultural, political, legal, economic, and historical factors but has been typically viewed as an aspect of identity based on physiological features.
What is Race?
This is a combination of income, education, and occupation
Socio-economic status
These three things make language important.
What are meaning, culture and power?
Systems of texts and talk that range from public to private and from naturally occurring to mediated forms
What is discourse?
This person viewed power as a behavior or process that permeates all human interaction that is both oppressive and productive and believes that “the exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power.”
Who is Foucault
This refers to categories of people who are distinctive on the basis of national origin or heritage, language or cultural practices.
What is ethnicity?
This person understood class as the bourgeoisie (those who own the means of production) and the proletariat (everyone else) based on capital (or accumulation of goods and their value)
Who is Karl Marx
__________ refers to the dictionary definition of a word; while, _________ refers to the emotional/personal reaction you might have to a word
What is denotative meaning and connotative meaning?
Assumptions that social differences stem from intrinsic, innate, human variations unrelated to social forces.
What is essentialism?
This refers to the elements of social relations that control, govern, and “normalize” individual and collective behavior.
What is Discipline
This is an internalized belief that white people are superior to all other races--done through systematic separation white from nonwhite to glorify whiteness.
What is the ideology of White Supremacy?
This is the notion that anyone can get rich because our society is open and competitive. Based on an achievement (are results of individual effort or merit) position to success rather than ascription (conditions at birth).
What is the ideology of the American Dream
This is learned patterns of beliefs, values, attitudes, norms, practices, customs, and behaviors shared by a large group of people OR a negotiation between difference and similarity.
What is culture?
The total set of experiences in which children become clear about norms and expectations and learn how to function as respected and accepted members of a culture
What is socialization
These are principles and practices we create to govern ourselves, presumably in non-arbitrary, systematic ways.
What are rules of right?
________ is both political and personal and often is referred to any theory of belief that a person’s inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, hair texture, or physical features, determine human intellectual capacity and personality traits; while, _________ refers to the systematic allocation of resources, privileges and rights differentially by race.
What is racism and systematic racism?
This focuses on individuals and their potential, claiming that everyone can participate and advance equally, if only they work hard enough but ignores structural barriers and systematic obstacles to employment, housing, education, and health care.
What is Rags-to-Riches perspective?
This notion believes the structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience. Meaning, this idea denotes that language shapes the way you think.
What is the sapir-whorf hypothesis?
The idea that the self is socially constructed through various relational and linguistic processes. Meaning, our identity arises out of interactions with other people and is based on language.
What is Social Constructionist
______________ refers to a set of assumptions and beliefs that comprise a system of thought; while ______________ addresses how social practices, relationships and structures are negotiated among diverse social forces.
What is ideology and hegemony?
________ is a way to understand the benefits of difference based on particular social identities; while, ______ refers to the unearned, unacknowledged entitlement one receives in everyday life simply because of white skin.
What is privilege and white privilege?
This perspective on class blames the poor for their circumstances and ignores the fact that many wealthy people have inherited their wealth and resources or were better positioned to attain the American Dream--poor people collectively exhibit traits that keep them down.
What is the culture of poverty?
____________ is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing; while, ___________ is the accepting ideas and believing negative stereotypes about a social identity group.
What are stereotypes and internalized oppression.