Exam 2: Systems of Privilege and Inequality

Reading "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?" Robert Bird and Frank Newport -Robert Bird and Frank Newport's chart on the top of p. 79 ("What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?") tells us which of the following?

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 21

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris -In "Poems with Disabilities," when Jim Ferris describes the moment in which "suddenly everything/ Changes, the world tilts/ A little, angle of vision/ Jumps…" He is describing the moment when readers realize

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 22

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins -In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins quotes a Black woman who said that while "the white woman is the black man's mule, the black woman is his dog."

(True/False)

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Question 23

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins -In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins describes the institutional, symbolic, and individual dimensions of oppression.

(True/False)

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Question 24

The term for the hatred of women is

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Question 25

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris -In "Poems with Disabilities," Jim Ferris mocks the use of disabled parking spaces.

(True/False)

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Question 26

The term for the process whereby individuals direct the resentment and anger they have about their situation onto those who are of equal or lesser status is horizontal hostility.

(True/False)

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Question 27

Categories such as gender, race, and sexual orientation are socially constructed.

(True/False)

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Question 28

Reading 10 "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" Audre Lorde -Audre Lorde's essay "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" illustrates which of the following?

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 29

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May -Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") critiques the article "Oppression" because the author does which of the following?

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 30

Being a member of a target group implies being in a position of subordination vis-à-vis the mythical norm.

(True/False)

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Question 31

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov -The focus on self-sufficiency devalues women and disabled people because we/they

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 32

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris -In "Poems with Disabilities," Jim Ferris notes that

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 33

The "bootstrap myth" implies that everyone deserves to have an equal piece of the pie within a democracy.

(True/False)

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Question 34

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran -According to Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"), intersectionality can help us

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 35

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins -Which of the following examples was used by Patricia Hill Collins as a way to explain systems of privilege and inequality and issues of entitlement?

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 36

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May -Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") gives a "snapshot" of intersectionality. Which of the following is not included in this snapshot?

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 37

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran -Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person") self-identifies as a middle-class woman explaining white privilege to a broke white person.

(True/False)

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Question 38

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May -Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") critiques which author known for her classic article "Oppression"?

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 39

Institutions can be defined as messages that shape our understandings of social life.

(True/False)

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Question 40

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Reading "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?" Robert Bird and Frank Newport -Robert Bird and Frank Newport's chart on the top of p. 79 ("What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?") tells us which of the following?

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris -In "Poems with Disabilities," when Jim Ferris describes the moment in which "suddenly everything/ Changes, the world tilts/ A little, angle of vision/ Jumps…" He is describing the moment when readers realize

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins -In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins quotes a Black woman who said that while "the white woman is the black man's mule, the black woman is his dog."

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins -In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins describes the institutional, symbolic, and individual dimensions of oppression.

The term for the hatred of women is

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris -In "Poems with Disabilities," Jim Ferris mocks the use of disabled parking spaces.

The term for the process whereby individuals direct the resentment and anger they have about their situation onto those who are of equal or lesser status is horizontal hostility.

Categories such as gender, race, and sexual orientation are socially constructed.

Reading 10 "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" Audre Lorde -Audre Lorde's essay "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" illustrates which of the following?

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May -Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") critiques the article "Oppression" because the author does which of the following?

Being a member of a target group implies being in a position of subordination vis-à-vis the mythical norm.

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov -The focus on self-sufficiency devalues women and disabled people because we/they

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris -In "Poems with Disabilities," Jim Ferris notes that

The "bootstrap myth" implies that everyone deserves to have an equal piece of the pie within a democracy.

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran -According to Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"), intersectionality can help us

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins -Which of the following examples was used by Patricia Hill Collins as a way to explain systems of privilege and inequality and issues of entitlement?

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May -Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") gives a "snapshot" of intersectionality. Which of the following is not included in this snapshot?

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran -Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person") self-identifies as a middle-class woman explaining white privilege to a broke white person.

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May -Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") critiques which author known for her classic article "Oppression"?

Institutions can be defined as messages that shape our understandings of social life.

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