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CSQ #2
Course Skills Quiz #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Systemic Oppression | INEQUALITY | RACISM | APOROPHOBIA | HOMOPHOBIA | ANTISEMITISM | TRANSPHOBIA | MISOGYNY | ISLAMOPHOBIA |
| Main Claim | The main point of the whole argument; the primary idea that the speaker wants their audience to believe. |
| Premise | A reason to believe a claim. |
| Co-Premise | A clarifying explanation of HOW the premise is actually supportive of the claim |
| Sub-Premise | A reason to believe the above premise |
| Objection | A reason to NOT believe a claim or premise |
| THE REASON RULE | Every premise must provide a reason to believe the box above it |
| Contradiction | A combination of statements, ideas, or features of a situation that are opposed to one another |
| Corroboration | Evidence which confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation: there is no independent corroboration for this |
| Discrepancy | A lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts |
| Cross-Checking | Looking for clashing (contradicting) and overlapping (corroborating) evidence between 2 documents VITAL to History because History CANNOT be based on a single document Connects to the acronym, N (in CAPTAIN) |
| Contextualizing | Students don’t consider under what circumstances a document was written. When they do this, they don’t realize the skill of ‘historical understanding’ In history, you cannot understand content without context Connects to the acronym, SPICE |
| Sourcing | Historians use the shitty method of ‘sourcing a document’. They ask the questions: When was it produced? Who was it produced by? For what purpose was it produced? |
| A Single Story is | One person’s perspective on a group of people |
| Danger of a Single Story | The danger of a single story is that you get stereotypes, which can lead to the STEREOTYPE THREAT |
| Why are stereotype threats bad? | Stereotypes Threats are bad because they affect a group of people or a person when it matters the most (like in a standardized test) |
| How can a stereotype threat be countered? | A stereotype threat can ONLY be countered if one is aware of stereotypes |
| Politics of Inevitability: | The notion that society and history will automatically move to a better future. Progress and progress lead to a ‘perfect society’ and there are no alternatives to this progress |
| Politics of Eternity | The idea that we cannot change the future. Time will eventually lead us back to the mistakes of the past It’s NOT the role of government to aid society to a better future. Government’s role is to guard its citizens from these potential outcomes |
| Politics of Responsibility | The idea that all change and consequences occur due to human choices and action. It’s up to HUMAN ACTION to change the future for better or worse… |
| Creator of the politics of inevitability, eternity, and responsibility | Timothy Snyder |
| Creator of the danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche |
| Creator of the stereotype threat | Claude Steele |
| What are three essential questions of determining historical significance? | 1.) How notable at the time was the event / person? 2.) How lasting & widespread are the consequences? 3.) Is the event / person symbolic of any trends or issues in world history? |
| What are the three types of causes to consider when explaining historical causation? | Immediate Causes Indirect Causes Underlying Causes |