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SW 215
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Definition of poverty line/threshold | |
| Who are poor | |
| Causes of Poverty | |
| Functions of poverty | |
| Examples of social insurance programs and public assistance programs | |
| The NASW's codes of ethics statement on poverty | |
| Variances rather than sexual problems | |
| sexual orientation | the deep-seated direction of one's sexual (erotic) attraction. it is continuum and not a set of absolute categories. sometimes referred to as affection, orientation or sexuality. evolves through multistage developmental process and change over time. |
| homosexual | sexual emotional and or romantic attraction to same sex |
| heterosexual | sexual emotional and or romantic attraction to opposite sex |
| bi-sexual | a person who is attracted to two sexes or two genders, but not necessarily simultaneously |
| intersexual | a set of medical conditions that feature congenital anomaly of the reproductive and sexual system. that us inter-sex people are born with "sex chromosomes" external genitalia, or internal reproductive systems that are not considered "standard" for either |
| transgender | those whose psychological self (gender identity) differs from the social expectations for the physical sex they were born with |
| transsexual | a person who experiences a mismatch of the sex they were born as and the sex identity as |
| cross-dresser | individuals who regularly or occasionally wear the clothing socially assigned to a gender not their own, but are usually comfortable with their anatomy and do not wish to change it. (not transexual) |
| homophobia | the irrational fear and tolerance of people who are homosexual or of homosexual feelings within in oneself. This assumes heterosexuality is superior. |
| institutionalized homophobia | arrangement of society used to benefit one group at the expense of another through the use of language, media education, religion, economics |
| individualized homophobia | the process by which acts of discrimination and of oppression are directed at an individual person based on the oppressors fears and or feelings of tolerance |
| internalized homophobia | the process by which an oppressed person comes to believe, accept, or live out the inaccurate stereotypes and misinformation about their group. |
| ethnic groups | based on the reality of cultural similarities and differences and the interests they represent, such as customs history language |
| prejudice | |
| discrimination | |
| oppression | |
| race as a social construct | |
| white privilege | |
| internalized racism | |
| institutionalized rasicm | |
| individualized rasicm | |
| Causes of racial discrimination and oppression | |
| Sexual Harassment | |
| Sex and/or gender role expectations &socialization | |
| Consequences of sexism for women and men | |
| Feminism and feminist prospective | |
| Sexism institutionalized | |
| Sexism individualized | |
| Sexism internalized | |
| Social workers response to women's issues | |
| ethnocentrism | an orientation or set of beliefs that holds one's own culture, ethnic or racial group or nation as superior to others |