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Chapter 2 Key Terms
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- 1Hierarchya system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
- 2Exploitationthe action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work
- 3Marginalizationtreatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral conferring disadvantage and relegation
- 4Institutionsocial organizations that involve established patterns of behavior organized around particular purposes
- 5Prejudicemaking premature judgements without adequate information or with inaccurate information
- 6Intersectionalitythe matrix that allows an understanding of simultaneous privilege and oppression
- 7Transphobiathe fear or dislike of transgender individuals
- 8Discoursethe process of creating knowledge or a culturally constructed representation of reality to create "regimes of truth"
- 9Imperialismthe economic, political and cultural domination over nations and communities
- 10Colonialismthe building and maintenance of colonies in one region by people from another region
- 11Institutionalizationofficially placing into a structured system of set of practices
- 12Privilegeadvantages people have by virtue of their status or position in society
- 13Bootstrap mythmyth that people, if properly motivated and willing to work hard, can pull themselves up by their "bootstraps" and become successful
- 14Misogynyhatred of women
- 15Sexisma belief in the inherent superiority of one sex over others and thereby its right to dominance
- 16Horizontal hostilitya process in which individuals direct the resentment and anger they have about their situation toward those who are of equal or lesser status
- 17Patriarchya system of domination of men over women
- 18Psy sciencesa form of institutional power that classifies individuals as "normal" or "deviant"
- 19Sanisma form of structural oppression comprised of beliefs and practices that are predicated upon the presumed existence of a "sound mind," leading to harm of all kinds of being directed at those determined to be of "unsound mind"
- 20Mythical normthe idealized characteristics of society that hold power and bring about oppression
- 21Hate crimethe threat of coercion and violence as well as the actual practice of it
- 22Compulsory heterosexualitythe notion that everybody should be heterosexual and have relationships with the opposite sex
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