SOCI 2100 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Visible Minority, Toronto
12 Oct 2018
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Diversity: a framework used to acknowledge difference-based guiding principles of social equality, social justice and anti-oppression, diversity as a concept includes all forms of visible and invisible difference. Gender, age, mental and physical abilities, language, family status and many more. Marginalization: is the process of pushing groups of less social power to margins of society. Underserved: disadvantages because of structural barriers and disparities. Material culture: the physical aspects of a culture or society; for example, food, clothes, building, religious objects, home, places of worship. Non-material: the non-physical aspects of culture or society, including customs, traditions, symbols, language, values, beliefs. Cultural competency: the ability of an organization or individual to practice in a manner that is respectful of and consistent with a clients or patients culture. Multiculturalism: the practice of creating harmonious relations between different cultural groups. Difference: in a social context, it is a term used to refer to difference in social characteristics.
