General Definitions
Applies to attitudes about a group and is defined as preconceived judgment formed without adequate information.
What is Prejudice?
The theory that spells out, with 9 propositions, that we learn discriminatory behavior and prejudicial beliefs from our interactions with others.
What is Social Learning Theory?
This person has very little prejudice against other groups and on principle, works to not discriminate against them.
What is The Unprejudiced Nondiscriminator?
Within broad institutions there are ________ that carry out specialized functions.
What is systems?
Found in the NASW Code of Ethics, this is a term with the goal of building an understanding of minority cultures to better and more appropriately provide services.
What is cultural competence?
Applies to behaviors. It is action that maintains and supports prejudice and denies to members of minority groups equal access to opportunities such as education, housing and employment.
A belief and promotion of that belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. It was a dominant belief in the United States before the American Civil War.
What is White Supremacy?
This person holds prejudicial beliefs, does not believe in the values of freedom and equality, and consistently discriminates against other groups in both word and deed.
What is The Prejudiced Discriminator?
The unfair treatment of an individual that is due to the established operating procedures, policies, laws, or objectives of institutions and systems.
What is Institutional Discrimination.
Coupled with cultural competence, this is a term that has the goal of encouraging personal reflection and growth around culture to increase service providers’ awareness.
What is cultural humility?
Characterized or based on the belief that one’s own cultural group is superior to all others and can lead to views that others are less human. Thought to be responsible for historical genocide and other atrocities.
What is Ethnocentrism?
The theory that our society values competitiveness and material belongings. We compete through life to acquire more of the available goods. This theory relies heavily on the idea of scarcity of resources.
What is Competition and Exploitation?
This person feels hostile to other groups but recognizes that law and social pressures are opposed to overt discrimination. Reluctantly, this person does not translate prejudice into action.
What is The Prejudiced Nondiscriminator.
A ______ __________ (two words) is a continuing pattern of social relationships intended to fulfill people’s basic needs and aspirations and carry out functions essential to the operation of society.
What is a social institution?
A type of practice and framework in which the driving forces are to challenge inequalities, understand how social inequality and structures of oppression create disadvantages, and challenge power structures.
What is Anti-Oppressive Practice?
Generalizations or assumptions that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image (which is often wrong) about what people in that group are like.
What is Stereotypes?
Occurs when a person or society is inflexible and rigid, has a low tolerance for uncertainty, emphasizes authority figures and quickly submits to their will. This will include placing high value on conventional behavior, while feeling threatened by unconventional behavior in others.
What is Authoritarianism?
This person has very little personal prejudice but may sometimes, even reluctantly, discriminate against other groups because it seems socially or financially convenient.
What is The Unprejudiced Discriminator?
Supported by research and anecdotal experiences from people of color, this is a practice of law enforcement officers stopping and searching people not otherwise engaged in suspicious behavior but, because of their race.
What is Racial Profiling?
When a social worker is using ______ role they are continuously learning from those they serve about their lived experiences and knowledge, skills, and strengths.
What is co-learner?
This may occur when people are targeted, discriminated against, or oppressed over a period of time, internalize (believe and make part of their self-image – their internal view of themselves) the myths and misinformation that society communicates to them about their group. This can result in higher rates of mental health, substance abuse, and violence within the group.
What is Internalized Oppression?
The theory that, when we feel promised attainment of the American Dream and are unable to reach it, we experience psychological distress which leads to frustration and behaviors that may be criminal or discriminatory.
What is Agnew's General Strain Theory?
Discrimination is not always coupled with ___________ in a person who disciminates.
What is prejudice?
The unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power that occurs in one area of society and is believed to occur either intentionally or through negligence.
What is Systemic Oppression?
When a social worker is using _______ role they are creating opportunities for those they serve to become skilled at obtaining resources and support by acting as an “empowerer,” not a “rescuer.”
What is co-creator?