[PSYC 354] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (33 pages long)

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 354
• Professor: Nazish Salahuddin

Document Summary

Social identities-what they are what they are not. Real impact on lived experience, access to resources, many domains. Related to personal identities, but not the same. Most research conducted, reported, and presented in english. Mostly college students, white, middle class, hetero, psych students. Over/misdiagnosis or women and people of color. Pathologization of sexual orientation and gender identification. White women from s africa that says she is african-american. Racial minorities felt they had to be professors of race. White felt no racial privilege or that minorities had racial privilege. Ultimately changes or expands one"s point of view. System of control adapts to adhere to current values and sensibilities, so can be rationalized and only in retrospect is obvious to the majority as a tool of oppression. Systems of control change and entrap fewer people, but not better. Needs of elite class that prompted each system of social control.