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MCS 105

Vocabulary terms for my Multicultural Understandings Midterm

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Define Prejudice. A judgement or opinion formed prematurely or without due consideration of relevant issues; conscious or unconscious negative belief about another social group and its members without knowledge of or examination of the facts; bias
Define Stereotype. A mental picture developed as a result of an experience, perception or myth; a preconceived or oversimplified generalization about an entire group of people without regard for their individual differences
Define Discrimination. The act of denying goods, resources, and services, and the limitation of access to full participation in society based on individual membership in a particular social group
Define Race. A social construct that artificially divides people into distinct groups based on characteristics such as physical appearance (particularly color)
Define other characteristics described in Race. Ancestral heritage, cultural affiliation, cultural history, ethnic classification, and the social, economic, and political needs of a society.
Define Ethnicity. A social construct which divides people into smaller social groups based on characteristics such as shared sense of group membership, values, language, ancestral and geographical base, and political interests.
Give examples of different ethnic groups. Cape Verdean, Haitian, African American (Black), Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese (Asian), Cherokee, Mohawk, Navajo (Native American), Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican (Latino), Polish, Irish, French (White).
Define Racial and Ethnic Identity. An individual's awareness and experience of being a member of a racial and ethnic group; the racial and ethnic categories that an individual chooses to describe him or herself based on the same race and ethnicity factors.
Define Racism. The systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States, by the members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power. It is supported by many social factors.
Define Individual Racism. The beliefs, attitudes, and actions of individuals that support or perpetuate racism. Individual racism can occur at both an unconscious and conscious level, and can be both active and passive.
Give Examples of Individual Racism. Telling a racist joke, using a racial epithet, or believing in the inherent superiority of Whites.
Define Active Racism. Actions which have as their stated or explicit goal the maintenance of the system of racism and the oppression of those in the targeted racial group. These goals are often supported by a belief in the inferiority of People of Color.
Define Passive Racism. Beliefs, attitudes, and actions that contribute to the maintenance of racism, without openly advocating violence or oppression. The conscious and unconscious maintenance of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that support the system of racism.
Define Structured Social Inequality. An arrangement of ongoing patterns of institutionalized social relations which are rooted in an ideological framework that legitimates and justifies the subordination of particular groups of people.
Define Sexism. The societal/cultural, institutional, and individual beliefs and practices that privilege men, subordinate women, and denigrate women-identified values.
Define Heterosexism. The societal/cultural, institutional, and individual beliefs and practices that assume that heterosexuality is the only natural, normal, acceptable sexual orientation.
Define Homophobia. The fear, hatred, or intolerance of lesbians, gay men, or any behavior that is outside the boundaries of traditional gender roles. Homophobia can be manifested as fear of association with lesbians or gays or being perceived as lesbian or gay.
Define Biphobia. The fear, hatred, or intolerance of bisexual women or men.
Define Assimilation. The process of adopting the values, practices, mannerisms, and other similarities of the dominant culture
Define Heterosexual Privilage. The benefits and advantages heterosexuals receive in a heterosexist culture. The benefits lesbians, gays, and bisexuals receive as a result of claiming heterosexual identity or denying homosexual or bisexual identity.
Define Heterosexual Ally. Heterosexual people who confront heterosexism, homophobia, and heterosexual privilege in themselves and others out of self interest, concerns for the target group, and believing that heterosexism is a problem.
Define Gender Identity. One's psychological sense of oneself as a male or a female.
Define Gender Roles. The socially constructed and culturally specific behavior and appearance expectations imposed on women (femininity) and en (masculinity).
Define Biological Sex. The physiological and anatomical characteristics of maleness or femaleness with which a person is born.
Define Transsexual. A person whose biological sex does not match their gender identity and who, though gender reassignment surgery and hormone treatments, seeks to change their physical body to match their gender identity. Transsexuals can be hetero, homo, or bi.
Define Transgender. A person whose self identification challenges traditional notions of gender and sexuality. Transgender people include transsexuals and others who do not conform to traditional understandings of labels male and female or heterosexual and homosexual.
Define Class. Relative social rank in terms of income, wealth, status, and/or power.
Define Classism. The institutional, cultural, and individual set of practices and beliefs that assign differential value to people according to their socio-economic class; an economic system which creates excessive inequality and causes basic human needs to go unmet.
Define Class Indicator. A factual or experiential factor that helps to determine an individual's class.
Define Class Continuum. The ranking of individuals or families in a society by income, wealth, status, or power; the range of experiences out of which particular class identities are defined.
Define Class Identity. A label for one category of class experience, such as ruling class, owning class, middle class, working class, lower class.
Define Ruling Class. The stratum of people who hold positions of power in major institutions of the society.
Define Owning Class. The stratum of families who own income producing assets sufficient to make paid employment unnecessary.
Define Middle Class. The stratum of families for whom breadwinners' higher education and/or specialized skills brings higher income and more security than those of working-class people.
Define Upper-Middle Class. The portion of the middle class with higher incomes due to professional jobs and/or investment income.
Define Lower-Middle Class. The portion of the middle class with lower and less stable incomes due to lower-skilled or unstable employment.
Define Working Class. The stratum of families whose income depends on hourly wages for labor.
Define Lower Class. The stratum of families with incomes insufficient to meet basic human needs.
Define Socialization. The process by which we learn those roles, including rewards, and punishments, that compel us to conform to social expectations.
Define Assimilation. The cultural absorption of a subordinate group into the mainstream or culturally dominant group.
Define "Ism". A conscious or unconscious thought, action, or institutional structure that subordinates, or tends to subordinate, a person or group because of race, class, gender, age, disability, etc.
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