SOC 300 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Victim Blaming, United Kingdom

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SOC 300
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
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SOC 300 WEEK 1 NOTES
Diversity
Concept of difference based on aspects of identity (e.g culture)
Broader than a concept of culture based on race, ethnicity, language, or
country of birth
An anti-oppression framework
Principles that value:
social justice
social inclusion
global citizenship
The concept of Diversity: Key challenges
The celebratory approach - fails to address unequal power relations and histories of social
exclusion, discrimination, and privilege, and oppression
The different approach
-is rooted in the social construction of differences
-serves to keep the standards of the dominant group intact
-certain charterisitics become valued and create privilege
-other characteristics are devalued and result in marginalization, thereby creating oppression
Privilege
-Benefits or advantage that are often unearned and can occur unconsciously because of social
power
-a right of benefit that only certain people have access to as result of their membership in a
dominant social group
Marginalization
-the process of pushing groups with less social power to the margins of society
Power
-the ability to do what you want even if in the face of opposition
An anti oppression approach
-a framework whose strategies promote equity, justice, and inclusion while challenging
patterns of oppression and discrimination.
-most frame works don’t look at power and privilege
-looks to history
-its a very active approach - looking at ways to improve society and make social change
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SOC 300 WEEK 2
INFORMATION FROM READING - Anzovino, Oresar, & Boutilier (2018) Chapter 1
Critical social theory - a marco theory interested in those who are oppressed, which critiques
social structures that exploit and marginalize members of a society and whose goal is liberation
from oppression.
oppression - a complex and multidimensional social phenomenon that involves the intentional
and unintentional domination of non - dominant groups in society by powerful dominant groups
and occurs on individual, cultural and structural levels in society.
Domination - systematic and continuous exertion of power by dominate group over non
dominate.
Non dominate - less power and privilege
3 LEVELS OF oppression - personal, cultural and structural
Culture - the total of everything in our social environment that we learn through socialization,
that is passed down from one generation to the next, and that continues to change throughout our
lives
Inclusive language the deliberation selection and use of vocabulary that avoids the exclusion of a
particular groups and that avoids the use of false generic terms
Internalized oppression occurs when targeted people internalize the negative stereotypes and the
miss information that the larger society communicate to them, either as individuals or as a part of
a larger group
Intersectionality: I concept used to describe the ways in which various aspects of identity
interconnect with multiple and often simultaneous levels and can be interlocking systems of
oppression
Matrix of domination: used by Patricia hill collins refers to the form of oppression and resistance
based on social constructed differences shape by cultural and historical context where I was an
individual or group can experience both oppression and privilege as a result of their combined
identities
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Concept of difference based on aspects of identity (e. g culture) Broader than a concept of culture based on race, ethnicity, language, or country of birth. The celebratory approach - fails to address unequal power relations and histories of social exclusion, discrimination, and privilege, and oppression. Is rooted in the social construction of differences. Serves to keep the standards of the dominant group intact. Certain charterisitics become valued and create privilege. Other characteristics are devalued and result in marginalization, thereby creating oppression. Benefits or advantage that are often unearned and can occur unconsciously because of social power. A right of benefit that only certain people have access to as result of their membership in a dominant social group. The process of pushing groups with less social power to the margins of society. The ability to do what you want even if in the face of opposition.

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