Concepts Theory Structures Theory II - Electric Boogaloo Other
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What is Redlining
A form of discrimination used by financial institutions to deny loans to people of color.
100
What is Stigma
Durkheim, Link & Phelan, and Goffman are all theorists who have written about what social force?
100
What is Social Gradient?
The pattern by which health varies in an increasing or decreasing way depending on socioeconomic status.
100
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.
200
What is resource-centered theory
A perspective from Link & Phelan, focusing on the impact that material goods, knowledge, and social ties have on inequality.
200
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.
300
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.
400
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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