SOWK Exam 1 questions with 100%
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Cultural Identity - correct answer ✔✔refers to the set of values held by a community and its
corresponding worldview
assimilation - correct answer ✔✔the unidirectional process of letting go of the culture of origin
while incorporating fundamental aspects of the dominant culture
enculturation - correct answer ✔✔the process of connecting back to the culture of origin or to a
renewed and recreated version of it
racism - correct answer ✔✔prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person
or people based on their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group
privilege - correct answer ✔✔Unearned advantages of special group membership
classism - correct answer ✔✔belief that working class people and the poor are inarticulate and
lack the education thus need leadership and guidance of the educated
empathy - correct answer ✔✔The capacity to understand or feel what another person is
experiencing from within their frame of reference
oppression - correct answer ✔✔An act of exploitation, violence, and a failure "to recognize
others as persons
, stereotypes - correct answer ✔✔The beliefs that individuals hold about members of a group
based on generalizations about characteristics of all members of that group
prejudice - correct answer ✔✔negative belief and/or attitude towards an entire group
discrimination - correct answer ✔✔Negative action towards an entire group
Prejudice vs. Discrimination - correct answer ✔✔prejudice is a negative attitude, discrimination
is a negative behavior
Intersectionality - correct answer ✔✔The multidimensionality and complexity of human cultural
experience where multiple identities interconnect
deculturalization - correct answer ✔✔The denial of one's culture or identity resulting from the
internalization of oppression
Projection - correct answer ✔✔the processes through which people minimize or deny
undesirable characteristics that they possess by exaggerating the same characteristics in
someone from a different cultural group
stigma - correct answer ✔✔an externally assigned mark of shame that sets a person apart from
others. it feeds prejudice, which often leads to negative and discriminatory actions
heterosexism - correct answer ✔✔a form of discrimination that reinforces systems that place
non-heterosexuals in marginalized social and political positions
affirmative action - correct answer ✔✔The legal regulations that promote racial and gender
equality in employment, government contracting, and education access
complete solution passed
Cultural Identity - correct answer ✔✔refers to the set of values held by a community and its
corresponding worldview
assimilation - correct answer ✔✔the unidirectional process of letting go of the culture of origin
while incorporating fundamental aspects of the dominant culture
enculturation - correct answer ✔✔the process of connecting back to the culture of origin or to a
renewed and recreated version of it
racism - correct answer ✔✔prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person
or people based on their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group
privilege - correct answer ✔✔Unearned advantages of special group membership
classism - correct answer ✔✔belief that working class people and the poor are inarticulate and
lack the education thus need leadership and guidance of the educated
empathy - correct answer ✔✔The capacity to understand or feel what another person is
experiencing from within their frame of reference
oppression - correct answer ✔✔An act of exploitation, violence, and a failure "to recognize
others as persons
, stereotypes - correct answer ✔✔The beliefs that individuals hold about members of a group
based on generalizations about characteristics of all members of that group
prejudice - correct answer ✔✔negative belief and/or attitude towards an entire group
discrimination - correct answer ✔✔Negative action towards an entire group
Prejudice vs. Discrimination - correct answer ✔✔prejudice is a negative attitude, discrimination
is a negative behavior
Intersectionality - correct answer ✔✔The multidimensionality and complexity of human cultural
experience where multiple identities interconnect
deculturalization - correct answer ✔✔The denial of one's culture or identity resulting from the
internalization of oppression
Projection - correct answer ✔✔the processes through which people minimize or deny
undesirable characteristics that they possess by exaggerating the same characteristics in
someone from a different cultural group
stigma - correct answer ✔✔an externally assigned mark of shame that sets a person apart from
others. it feeds prejudice, which often leads to negative and discriminatory actions
heterosexism - correct answer ✔✔a form of discrimination that reinforces systems that place
non-heterosexuals in marginalized social and political positions
affirmative action - correct answer ✔✔The legal regulations that promote racial and gender
equality in employment, government contracting, and education access
