Vocabulary Padlet by Navarro, Jaqueline

Culture

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-02 20:39:03 UTC

The norms, values, practices, patterns of communication language, laws customs, and meanings shared by a group of people located in a given time and place.

Socialization

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-02 20:39:16 UTC

Socialization refers to our systemic training into the norms of our culture.

Gender Identity

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:18:51 UTC

The development of one's self as male or female in relation to others.

Cultural Norms

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:19:19 UTC

An arbitrary set of ideas a group determines as acceptable in a given place and time.

Dominant Group

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:19:54 UTC

The dominant group is the group that is positioned as more valuable, this group will have more access to society's resources.

Minoritized Group

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A social group that is devalued in society. This devaluing encompasses how the group is represented what degree of access to resources it is granted, and how the unequal access is rationalized. Traditionally, a group in this position has been referred to as the minority group. However, this language has been replaced with the term minoritized to capture the active dynamic that creates a lower status in society and signal that a group's status is not necessarily related to how many or few of them there are in the population.

Stereotype

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:20:56 UTC

Reduced or simplified characteristics attributed to a group

Discrimination

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:21:23 UTC

Action based on prejudice. When we act on our prejudices, we are discriminating.

Prejudice

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:22:56 UTC

Learned prejudment about members of social group to which we don't belong. Prejudice is based on limited knowledge or experience with the group. Simplistic judments and assumptions are made and projected onto everyone from that group.

Bias

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:23:07 UTC

Prejudices learned from socialization.

Implicit/unconscious bias

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The navigations we make as the result of our socialization about groups that do not generally occur at the conscious level.

Microagression

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:23:49 UTC

The everyday slights and insults that minoritized people endure and that most people of the dominant group don't notice or take seriously.

Privilege

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:24:35 UTC

Used in terms of how society works; refers to the rights, advantages, and protections enjoyed by oftentimes at the expense of others.

Opression

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:25:28 UTC

The discrimination of one social group against another is backed by institutional power. Oppression occurs when one group can enforce its prejudice throughout society because it controls the institutions. Oppression occurs at the group or macro level, and goes well beyond individuals. Sexism, racism, classism, ableism, and heterosexism are forms of oppression.

Social Stratification (classism)

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:26:37 UTC

The concept is that social groups are relationally positioned in a hierarchy of unequal value (e.g. people without disabilities are seen as more valuable than people with disabilities). This ranking is used to justify the unequal distribution of resources among social groups.

Racism, Ableism, Sexism, Classism

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:28:17 UTC

These are defined by the book as systematic oppressions. Racism is the systematic oppression of people of color in the United States, Ableism is the systematic oppression of (perceived) disabled people, Sexism is the systematic oppression of women by men, and Classism is the system oppression of poor and working people by those who control resources. There are economic, political, and cultural dimensions to these oppressions.

Hegemony

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:32:06 UTC

The imposition of dominant group ideology onto everyone in society. Hegemony makes it difficult to escape or to resist believing in this dominant ideology, thus social control is achieved through conditioning rather than physical force or intimidation.

Ideology

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:32:26 UTC

The big, shared ideas of a society that are reinforced throughout all of the institutions and thus are very hard to avoid believing. These ideas include the stories , myths representations, explanations, deininitions, and rationalizations that are used to justify inequality in society. Individualism and Meritocracy are examples of ideology.

Dominant Ideology

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:33:44 UTC

According to the text, when there is a gap in historical knowledge and perspective that gap is filled by the dominant discourse (story) of how things came to be.

Used the speech from "Barbie" as America Ferrera's character lists dominant ideologies rooted in patriarchy.

Intersectionality

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:34:22 UTC

The understanding that we simultaneously occupy multiple social positions and that these positions do not cancel each other out; they interact in complex ways that must be explored and understood.

Internalized Dominance

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:34:43 UTC

Internalizing and acting out (often unawarely) the constant messages circulating that you and your group are superior to whichever group is minoritized in relation to yours and that you are entitiled to your higher position.

Internalized Oppression

jnavarro144 — 2024-04-05 01:35:57 UTC

Believing in and acting out (often unawarely) the constant messages circulating in the culture that you and your group are inferior to whichever group is dominant in relation to yours and that you are deserving of your lower position.