Privilege, Oppression, and Difference | Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination | Making Privilege and Oppression Happen | How Systems of Privilege Work | Denial and Resistance |
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True
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Worldwide, thirty percent of women report having been sexually or physically assaulted by a partner, and women are more at risk of being a victim of rape and domestic violence than of cancer, car accidents, war, and malaria combined. |
False
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Adam Smith saw capitalism as a. collection of small, independent producers and entrepreneurs competing with one another to provide what people need at a price they are willing to pay |
True
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In the four years after former President Barack Obama took office, with high approval ratings from whites, negative views of blacks increased in the white population. |
False
Women are culturally disidentified with power, which which means it is harder for them to make use of it without being challenged.
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Women are culturally identified with power |
True
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The simplest way to help others make different choices is to make them ourselves, in the open, where everyone can see. As we shift the patterns of our own participation, we make it easier for others to do so. |
5:1
Among illegal drug users, for example, whites out number blacks by more than _______ , and yet blacks make up sixty percent of those imprisoned for that offense.
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Modern Capitalism
The goal of _______ is to turn money into more money.
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Privilege and Oppression
Between crises and scandals ______ and _______ continue the insidious work of making organizations increasingly dysfunctional and vulnerable.
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Men
Research shows that ________ receive the overwhelming majority of attention in classrooms at every level of education
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Talk about it
In order to do something about privilege and oppression, we have to first __________
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Rodney King
What is the name is the black motorist that uttered a simple yet exasperated plea, "Can we all just get along?"
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Economics
What is the base of every social institution?
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The positive or negative treatment of people because they happen to belong to a particular social category
What is discrimination?
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Privileged
________ groups are assumed to represent humanity and society as a whole
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“People are just people; their skin color doesn’t matter”, or “I do not see you as a black person”
Provide an example of the colorblind theory
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Unearned advantage and Conferred Dominance
What are the two types of privilege? Provide examples for each?
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The cultural devaluing of women has long been used as an excuse to pay them less and exploit them as a source of cheap labor
How does capitalism make use of gender equality?
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Among people with disabilities, the employment rate is _________ times higher than it is for people without disabilities.
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Whether someone is arrested for a crime, or wins a Nobel Prize, whites are rarely identified as white, because it is assumed.
What does white identification mean?
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“People of color are just as racist as white people.”
Provide an example of reverse racism
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What is oppression?
The systemic subordination, exploitation, and mistreatment of one group by another as an assertion and defense of privilege.
What is oppression?
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The interconnection of different forms of privilege and oppression and the complex ways in which people's standing in relation to one affects their position and experience in relation to another
What is the matrix of domination?
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Unconscious bias either for or against a category of people
What is implicit bias? Provide an example
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In a social system, the behavior or appearance that is expected of participants based on their position in a particular situation
What is the path of least resistance? Provide an example
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"Nothing we do as individuals matters, but thats that its virtually important we do it anyway... Continued (pg. 111)
Define Gandhi's Paradox and the Myth of No Effect
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