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Chapter 23
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- 1GINI coefficienta commonly used use of income inequality
- 2Infant mortality ratenumber of children in every 1000 who die before 5 years
- 3Life expectancyAverage age at which people are expected to die
- 4ResillianceAbility to thrive, mature and increase competence in the face of adverse circumstances
- 5Psychological experience of poverty1. hopelessness
2. uncertainty about future
3. alienation from mainstream society - 6Poverty trapwhen poor people think they may never escape their poverty-stricken existence
- 7Class consciousnessDeveloped by Karl Marx, referring to peoples critical understanding of how the social system works
- 8Dept trapWhen people habitually spend more money than they have
- 9Consumer culturea cultural fantasy that the solution to life's problems are spending more and more on material things
- 10Social capitallike 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
- 11Cultural imperialismwhen a stronger culture imposes its understandings and practices on weaker cultures
- 12Ethnicitygroup that shares social features that contribute to the unique identity of that group
- 13Otheringthe process of defining the self as different and separate through the creation of the other
- 14CultureSocial 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)
- 15EthnocentrismDegree to which individuals perceive their social group as being superior to others, while having negative feelings towards out-groups
- 16Attitudelearnt, evaluative belief systems that involve emotions and are exhibited in a fairly consistent way, and there are products of their context
- 17Steriotypesinadequate over-generalisations applied to all the members of a perceived social category
- 18Predjudicea negative attitude that may be based on irrational in-group beliefs about out-groups
- 19Discriminationthe 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
- 20Ideologya system of beliefs that is reflected in all social practices that may be structural or destructive
- 21Active agentspeople have the capacity to develop alternative and opposing ideologies
- 22Racisma system of beliefs about the superiority of some rases above others
- 23Anti-Islamisma prejudice agains muslim people
- 24Anti-Semitisma prejudice agains Jewish people
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- University Psychology 144 FlashCards sobre Chapter 23, criado por Zeneatha Jònsson em 20-10-2014.
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