SOWK 2375 Exam Review (latest update)
questions n answers
Prejudice - correct answer ✔✔This is an opinion or prejudgment about an individual, group or
issue that is not based on fact.
Discrimination - correct answer ✔✔It is the unequal treatment of people based on prejudgment
because they belong to some category
Oppression - correct answer ✔✔This is longer-term result of putting extreme limitations on or
discriminating against some designated group
Homophobia - correct answer ✔✔This is the irrational hatred or fear or dislike of gay, lesbian, or
bisexual people
Stereotypes - correct answer ✔✔Fixed mental images of members belonging to group based on
assumed attributes that reflect an overly simplified opinion about that group
Ethnicity - correct answer ✔✔Affiliation with a group of people who have common racial,
national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.
Populations-at-risk/ Vulnerable Populations - correct answer ✔✔Groups of people who share
some identifiable characteristic that put them at greater risk of social and economic deprivation
and oppression (gays and lesbians, Muslims, frail elderly)
race - correct answer ✔✔A category of people who share common descent and genetic origin;
formally based on physical characteristics such as skin color or eye shape;
, currently on such things as blood groups;
primarily a social construct with little genetic validation;
Culture - correct answer ✔✔The sum total of life patterns passed on and passed from
generation to generation within a group of people. Includes institutions, language, religious
ideals, habits of thinking, artistic expressions, and patterns of social and interpersonal
relationships.
National Origin - correct answer ✔✔Involves individuals', their parents', or their ancestors'
country of birth and is an important factor in people's cultural values and expectations.
sexual orientation - correct answer ✔✔This involves sexual and romantic attraction to persons
based on gender.
Allies - correct answer ✔✔The Texas State program that promotes awareness and
understanding about sexual and gender identities through education and training
Institutional Racism - correct answer ✔✔Describes societal patterns that are subtle, but have
the net effect of imposing oppressive or otherwise negative conditions against identifiable
groups on the basis of race or ethnicity.
intersex person - correct answer ✔✔Person who has some mixture of male and female
predisposition and configuration of reproductive structures (also referred to as
pseudohermaphrodite)
sexism - correct answer ✔✔This is prejudice or discrimination against one gender or the other
sex discrimination - correct answer ✔✔This is the differential treatment of women based on
their gender.
questions n answers
Prejudice - correct answer ✔✔This is an opinion or prejudgment about an individual, group or
issue that is not based on fact.
Discrimination - correct answer ✔✔It is the unequal treatment of people based on prejudgment
because they belong to some category
Oppression - correct answer ✔✔This is longer-term result of putting extreme limitations on or
discriminating against some designated group
Homophobia - correct answer ✔✔This is the irrational hatred or fear or dislike of gay, lesbian, or
bisexual people
Stereotypes - correct answer ✔✔Fixed mental images of members belonging to group based on
assumed attributes that reflect an overly simplified opinion about that group
Ethnicity - correct answer ✔✔Affiliation with a group of people who have common racial,
national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.
Populations-at-risk/ Vulnerable Populations - correct answer ✔✔Groups of people who share
some identifiable characteristic that put them at greater risk of social and economic deprivation
and oppression (gays and lesbians, Muslims, frail elderly)
race - correct answer ✔✔A category of people who share common descent and genetic origin;
formally based on physical characteristics such as skin color or eye shape;
, currently on such things as blood groups;
primarily a social construct with little genetic validation;
Culture - correct answer ✔✔The sum total of life patterns passed on and passed from
generation to generation within a group of people. Includes institutions, language, religious
ideals, habits of thinking, artistic expressions, and patterns of social and interpersonal
relationships.
National Origin - correct answer ✔✔Involves individuals', their parents', or their ancestors'
country of birth and is an important factor in people's cultural values and expectations.
sexual orientation - correct answer ✔✔This involves sexual and romantic attraction to persons
based on gender.
Allies - correct answer ✔✔The Texas State program that promotes awareness and
understanding about sexual and gender identities through education and training
Institutional Racism - correct answer ✔✔Describes societal patterns that are subtle, but have
the net effect of imposing oppressive or otherwise negative conditions against identifiable
groups on the basis of race or ethnicity.
intersex person - correct answer ✔✔Person who has some mixture of male and female
predisposition and configuration of reproductive structures (also referred to as
pseudohermaphrodite)
sexism - correct answer ✔✔This is prejudice or discrimination against one gender or the other
sex discrimination - correct answer ✔✔This is the differential treatment of women based on
their gender.
