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What is Redlining
A form of discrimination used by financial institutions to deny loans to people of color.
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What is Stigma
Durkheim, Link & Phelan, and Goffman are all theorists who have written about what social force?
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What is Social Gradient?
The pattern by which health varies in an increasing or decreasing way depending on socioeconomic status.
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What are Education, Occupation, Income (sometimes Wealth).
These are the dimensions usually used to measure socioeconomic status.
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What is colorism
A type of discrimination where darker-skinned individuals face more interpersonal discrimination
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What is Ubiquitous Exposure
A kind of exposure that makes it hard to measure outcome, as everyone is affected by it.
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What is resource-centered theory
A perspective from Link & Phelan, focusing on the impact that material goods, knowledge, and social ties have on inequality.
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What is Interpersonal, Institutional, and Internalized?
The three forms of racism.
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What is intersectionality?
The framework analyzing cumulative, rather than additive, experience of identities
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What is segmented assimilation?
The cumulative exposure to toxic host environment.
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What is Durable Inequality
Part of Fundamental Causes, what term describes the tendency for SES to be ever present, even when poor health is not a factor.
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Who is Erving Goffman
The theorist who discussed othering as a mechanism of stigma, and defined stigma as something deeply disturbing.
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What are policy solutions to combat racism?
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Equal Rights Act of 1964, Fair Housing Act of 1968 are examples of this.
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What is intersectionality paradox
When high status identities intersect with race/gender and cause poor health outcomes?
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What is ambivalent sexism?
A theoretical framework that describes two different forms of sexism: benevolent and hostile.
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What is Acculturation
The adaptation to social norms, diet, behaviors, and lifestyle of the dominant culture.
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What is minority stress model
The model in which Ilan Meyer analyzed the additive, chronic, and socially based stress.
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What is the Healthy Immigrant Effect?
Selection, a way that individuals are stratified into socioeconomic status based on prior health, is important to which empirical pattern in health research?
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What is frame viability?
The process of making a political message palatable to an audience, regardless of its basis in factual information.
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What is epidemiologic paradox?
Another term for the healthy immigrant effect.
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What is Weathering
Developed by Geronimus, this framework analyzes the cumulative wear and tear that comes with adapting to social stressors (i.e. racism).
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Who is Rose.
The theorist who sought to focus on the characteristics of the population as a whole, rather than the individual.
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Who is Hatzenbeuhler?
Researcher who studied how structural interactions and policy can influence the health of minority populations.
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What is labeling theory?
The theoretical perspective which suggests that the identity of a certain identity status (i.e. black, gay, woman) is not experienced by the hegemonic group.
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What is a proximal process?
The stress that is internalized from discrimination based upon sexual orientation.
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