SOCW 206 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ageism, Heterosexism, Betty Friedan
6 May 2018
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SOCW 206 (Section 2) Final Exam Study Guide
Be able to define:
• Oppression two definitions:
-System of relationships among social groups in which “one social group”
whether knowingly or unconsciously exploits another social group for its own
benefit, resulting in vast/deep injustices.
-A system of relationships that advantages some and disadvantages others based
on one’s social group membership at the individual, institutional, and cultural
levels. Some people could experience both advantages and disadvantages
depending on their social identity.
• Minority (as discussed in class)
• Prejudice = tend to be based on stereotypes, but differs in the sense that one
really believes in them and doesn’t simply see them as jokes; intentionality to use
prejudices to maintain group interests
-Example: “women can’t be president because it’s a man’s job”
-Example: “all muslims are terrorists”
• Discrimination = the intentional or unintentional act of putting prejudice thinking
into an outwardly displayed action
-Often denies people equal status, creates unequal treatment or lack of
participation in a group, institution, or culture
-Examples: hate crimes, not hiring a person based on a social identity
marker deemed as inferior
• Platinum Rule = the idea that you can’t tell what life is like for someone else
until you have “walked in their shoes”
-It builds on the Christian principle called the Golden Rule (treat others as
you would) to incorporate diversity concerns
• Microaggressions = everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental
alights/snubs/insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate
hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their
identity
• Ethno-religious = combination of ethnicity and religion that indicates a cultural
practice of traditions that are not necessarily always “religious”
-Can also promote nationalism, and as a result discourage interfaith
marriage to preserve one’s culture
-i.e. Irish Catholic, Jewish, Amish, Sikhs
• Privilege = usually an unearned advantage that has been historically and socially
granted to certain identities in society to maintain relationships of dominance
-Privilege is a fact, not an insult
-Some are unaware/not self-conscious of a common fate under privilege
-Privilege is not about luck or fortune → it is a systemic advantage
• One-drop rule
• Race =
-not simply biological
-a socio-political construct
-mostly significant in an oppression context and shared political identity
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-not about place of origin for Black and White peoples
-social grouping of various ethnic groups or many nationalities
• Intersectionality
Describing “isms”:
• Be able to define 5 major forms of oppression we talked about in class, and
provide examples of how it creates disadvantages and privileges. Talk about
who is marginalized and how it lives itself out.
1. Racism = a system of advantage and/or disadvantage based on race and
supported by individual, institutional and cultural structures that create and
sustain benefits for a dominant group that influences decisions, institutions, and
cultural norms around race
-Marginalized African Americans, Asian Americans, Native
Americans/Pacific Islanders, Latino/a/x Americans
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2. Sexism = oppression of biological women and transgender women
-Marginalized women, transgenders
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3. Heterosexism = a system of individual, institutional and cultural beliefs, norms
and practices that advantage heterosexuals ignoring pansexual, lesbian, gay,
asexual peoples. It is based on cis-gender sexist and sexually oppressive practices
(i.e. who wears the pants in the relationship or which one is the man).
-In other words, humans have created a form of oppression that is
dependent on who you are said or expected to have a sexual relationship
with.
-Marginalized lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, pan-sexuals, asexuals,
queers
-Lived out through homophobia (fear/hatred/intolerance of LGBQ)
4. Classism = systematic oppression that categorizes and ranks people into
dominant or subordinate groups based upon their economic status, family lineage,
type or job, and level of education. It provides advantages for the dominant group,
which is based on the exploitation of subordinate group.
5. Religious oppression = system of advantages and disadvantages that gives
privilege to the dominant religion and subordinates often numerically minority
religions in a given context
-Oppressed = atheists, raced people, women, LGBTQ people
6. Ageism = the systemic mistreatment of elders
-Most seniors are mentally and physically active regardless of age with a
great deal to contribute
-Societal norms marginalize seniors, treat them with disrespect, make
them feel unwelcomed and otherwise generalize as if they were all the
same
7. Ableism = systemic inequality directed at people with disabilities, and
privileges those who are temporarily able or differently abled as ‘normal’
-We often created disabilities and abled-bodies privileges
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Document Summary
Socw 206 (section 2) final exam study guide. Be able to define: oppression two definitions: System of relationships among social groups in which one social group whether knowingly or unconsciously exploits another social group for its own benefit, resulting in vast/deep injustices. A system of relationships that advantages some and disadvantages others based on one"s social group membership at the individual, institutional, and cultural levels. Example: women can"t be president because it"s a man"s job . Example: all muslims are terrorists : discrimination = the intentional or unintentional act of putting prejudice thinking into an outwardly displayed action. Often denies people equal status, creates unequal treatment or lack of participation in a group, institution, or culture. Can also promote nationalism, and as a result discourage interfaith marriage to preserve one"s culture. I. e. irish catholic, jewish, amish, sikhs: privilege = usually an unearned advantage that has been historically and socially granted to certain identities in society to maintain relationships of dominance.
