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Flashcards by Zeneatha Jònsson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Zeneatha Jònsson
about 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| GINI coefficient | a commonly used use of income inequality |
| Infant mortality rate | number of children in every 1000 who die before 5 years |
| Life expectancy | Average age at which people are expected to die |
| Resilliance | Ability to thrive, mature and increase competence in the face of adverse circumstances |
| Psychological experience of poverty | 1. hopelessness 2. uncertainty about future 3. alienation from mainstream society |
| Poverty trap | when poor people think they may never escape their poverty-stricken existence |
| Class consciousness | Developed by Karl Marx, referring to peoples critical understanding of how the social system works |
| Dept trap | When people habitually spend more money than they have |
| Consumer culture | a cultural fantasy that the solution to life's problems are spending more and more on material things |
| Social capital | like physical capital, but rather than being stored in money or property, its embedded in networks, spaces and institutions that make it possible for people to work together |
| Cultural imperialism | when a stronger culture imposes its understandings and practices on weaker cultures |
| Ethnicity | group that shares social features that contribute to the unique identity of that group |
| Othering | the process of defining the self as different and separate through the creation of the other |
| Culture | Social information that humans need to interact with each other, comprised of collective symbols and learnt aspects of society (different groups have different levels of access to this knowledge) |
| Ethnocentrism | Degree to which individuals perceive their social group as being superior to others, while having negative feelings towards out-groups |
| Attitude | learnt, evaluative belief systems that involve emotions and are exhibited in a fairly consistent way, and there are products of their context |
| Steriotypes | inadequate over-generalisations applied to all the members of a perceived social category |
| Predjudice | a negative attitude that may be based on irrational in-group beliefs about out-groups |
| Discrimination | the behavioural manifestation of belief systems, which may or may not result in violence, depending on the extent to which it is legitimised within the socio-historical context and the degree to which it is perceived to be socially desirable of undesirable |
| Ideology | a system of beliefs that is reflected in all social practices that may be structural or destructive |
| Active agents | people have the capacity to develop alternative and opposing ideologies |
| Racism | a system of beliefs about the superiority of some rases above others |
| Anti-Islamism | a prejudice agains muslim people |
| Anti-Semitism | a prejudice agains Jewish people |
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