Social Theories
What are the four Social Theories we focused on in this unit, from page 2?
What are Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Social Constructionalism, and Symbolic Interactionalism?
What are the four Theories of Prejudice we focused on, on Page 9?
What are Scapegoating Theory, Authoritarian Personality Theory, Exploitation Theory, and The Normative Approach?
___________ is a statement of dislike or a use of a derogatory term. The action can result in the creating of and/or maintaining stereotypes. Racial slurs are an example of the verbal expression level.
What is Verbal Expression (overt)?
A white family is approved for a home loan while a Black family with a similar financial background is denied approval.
This phenomenon is an example of _____________.
This Fall Sports Team is holds a current record of 5 wins and 4 losses. They're 1-3 in conference play, and have only lost 2 games at home all season. They host Southwest LA this Saturday, February 16th, at 1PM, for their final game, AAAANNNNNDDD final home game, OF THE YEAR! WHO ARE THEY?!
Who is Men's Football?
Social stability is necessary to have a strong society, and adequate socialization and social integration are necessary to achieve social stability. Society’s social institutions perform important functions to help ensure social stability. Slow social change is desirable, but rapid social change threatens social order. ________ is a macro theory.
What is Functionalism?
_____________ says that prejudice people believe they are victims because of the "other." Rather than understanding the failure or accepting guilt, a person transfers the blame for failure to the "other" group OR the vulnerable group. Today, many folks in the U.S. blame immigration for the economic failure. The immigrant becomes the scapegoat for one's own lack of work or economic advances. In short, the ________ affects the vulnerable group.
What is Scapegoating Theory?
__________ is when a prejudice person takes the steps to avoid any social interaction with a group. It is not exclusion. It's withdrawing from a group because of prejudicial assumptions of a group
What is The Avoidance Level (Covert)?
________ is a colloquial expression for a conversation black parents in the United States feel compelled to have with their children and teenagers about the dangers they face due to racism or unjust treatment from authority figures, law enforcement or other parties, and how to de-escalate them. The practice dates back generations and is often viewed as a rite of passage for black children.
What is The Talk?
Who won the Women's World Lacrosse Box Championships this past summer in Utica NY, it it's INAUGURAL YEAR?
Who is USA?
Society is characterized by pervasive inequality based on social class, gender, and other factors. Far-reaching social change is needed to reduce or eliminate social inequality and to create an egalitarian society. _______ is a macro theory.
What is Conflict Theory?
_________________ is a behavior that demonstrates uncritical acceptance of authority and concern with power and toughness. The ___________ displays aggression toward people who do not conform to the social norms or obey authority - or the way "things are suppose to be." The theory proposes that conservative views are constructed with resistance to change, and justification for inequality as the core components.
What is Authoritarian Personality Theory?
___________________ is the complete barring, ejection, keeping out, omission, segregation of a vulnerable group. Yet there are 2 approaches to the exclusion level. _________ exclusion refers to segregation/exclusion of a group that is supported by law. _________ exclusion refers to segregation/exclusion by chance and consequence. _________ is usually the residue of _______. __________ segregation/exclusion is also referred to institutional discrimination - unequal treatment of a subordinate group that is ongoing, entrenched in customs, laws and practices. Institutionalized discrimination reproduces a perpetual state of inequality. Institutional discrimination occurs when groups are perpetually maintained in a position of subordination
What are The Exclusion De Jure (Overt) / De Facto (Covert) Level?
While someone who is White becomes defensive about, uncomfortable with, or resistant to, conversations regarding race, their privilege, history of unethical Civil Right violations, or slavery, this phenomenon is known as ____________.
What is White Fragility?
How old will Glendale Community College be in 2027?
What is 100 Years Old?
____________ believe that knowledge arises out of human relationships. Thus, what we take to be true and objective is the result of social processes that take place in historical and cultural contexts. When a community’s accepted knowledge becomes policy, ideas about power and privilege in the community become codified. These ___________ ideas then create social reality, and—if they aren’t examined—begin to seem fixed and unchangeable.
What is Social Constructionalism?
______________ is the exploitation of a group for the benefit of capitalism/profit. ___________ and conflict theory (from last week's lecture) explain how racism and/or prejudice can stigmatize a group as less than or subordinate so that exploitation of the vulnerable group can be justified. In short, the privilege group benefits from the factors of prejudice that maintains a group in a powerless position.
What is Exploitation Theory?
______________ includes harmful attacks on individual members of the disliked groups. Such actions includes harassment, insults, vandalism, physical assault and murder. They are constituted as hate crimes. Most hate crimes in the US are a result of scapegoating.
What is The Physical Abuse Level (Overt)?
_______________ is a form of implicit racism, in which a person's unconscious negative evaluations of racial or ethnic minorities are realized by a persistent avoidance of interaction with other racial and ethnic groups. As opposed to traditional, overt racism, which is characterized by overt hatred for and explicit discrimination against racial/ethnic minorities, _______________ is characterized by more complex, ambivalent expressions and attitudes.
Example: If a White employer who supports equality nonetheless favors White candidates over Asian candidates in job interviews when all the individuals' qualifications for the position are unclear, then they are demonstrating ____________.
What is Aversive Racism?
Where did Coach Murph/Professor Murphy, play College Lacrosse?
A. UAlbany
B. Syracuse University
C. Johns Hopkins University
D. Stony Brook University
What is A, UAlbany?
People construct their roles as they interact; they do not merely learn the roles that society has set out for them. As this interaction occurs, individuals negotiate their definitions of the situations in which they find themselves and socially construct the reality of these situations. In so doing, they rely heavily on symbols such as words and gestures to reach a shared understanding of their interaction. ____________ is also a micro theory.
What is Symbolic Interactionalism?
____________ grounds itself on the view that prejudice happens because of societal norms. According to the ____________, prejudice is influenced by societal norms and encourages intolerance. Social forces, such as political climates, operate in a society that encourage behaviors toward a vulnerable group. For example, political rhetoric can create a "normal." Post 9/11, many travel industries were cautious about boarding folks "appearing" Muslims. Many would agree that it was "normal" to pre-judge" Muslims because of the political landscape. Another example would be someone claiming, "You know how things are." What is that "thing?" It's the normal.
What is The Normative Approach?
The most extreme level of discrimination is ____________. Massacres and genocide have been part of the US history. The difference between the physical abuse level and the ____________ is numbers. When a group becomes a target for abuse and murder is the goal, then it falls under the ____________. Such actions continue sporadically throughout the US against Muslims, African Americans and undocumented immigrants. Yet some might use the definition of institutional discrimination as a framework to explain why certain minority groups are being targeted and murdered.
What is The Extermination Level (Overt)?
Although HIGHLY unlikely, we could wake up tomorrow and the world could have infrastructure of Racism reversed. White Privilege as we know it, could be erased and turn into something completely different like Black or Brown Privilege. While it will probably will not happen in our lifetime, the reason it COULD (and likely will) change over time is because Privilege is ___________. Hint: It's not a solid or a gas because it's_____________
What is Fluid?
Although though the attendance has this person down for a both eyebrow AND question raising 8 TIMES(?!?!?!), according to the "ladies and gentleman"/round off applause count, the total amount of time times that Coach Murph/Professor Murphy remembers seeing THIS PERSON IN CLASS IS?!
**Disclaimer- while the answer is still included regardless, the number is subject to change if the person is here today.**
A. _________ & 3
B. _________ & 1
C. _________ & 4
D. _________ & 2
Who is Dante Dehnoushi?
What is 2?