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Understanding Human Diversity

Understanding Human Diversity. Chapter 7. What does “diversity” mean?. Human diversity. Refers to all humans & searches for cultural, community, and human strengths. Dimensions of Diversity. Culture Race Ethnicity Gender Sexual Orientation Socioeconomic Status Ability/Disability Age

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Understanding Human Diversity

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  1. Understanding Human Diversity Chapter 7

  2. What does “diversity” mean?

  3. Human diversity • Refers to all humans & searches for cultural, community, and human strengths

  4. Dimensions of Diversity • Culture • Race • Ethnicity • Gender • Sexual Orientation • Socioeconomic Status • Ability/Disability • Age • Locality • Spirituality & Religion • Intersectionality?

  5. Dimensions of Commonality & Difference • Shared Group Identity Transmitted Intergenerationally(Race/Ethnicity—_____; Elderly—_____) • Group membership lifelong vs. Acquired (Gender—_____; Disability—_____) • Group membership apparent (Person of Color—_____; Gay/Lesbian—_____) • Group membership a choice (Religious minority—_____; Elderly—_____)

  6. Focus on Cultural Diversity • What is culture? • Rules of the game in a particular society as expressed in: • Traditions • Norms • Child-rearing practices • Folklore/Stories children are told • How institutions are organized

  7. Culture is Often Unconscious • What we do “naturally” • Only find out when you violate cultural rules • Refugee kids hygene • Only explain it when asked • Halloween? • Santa Claus?

  8. Race is culturally bound • “White” in U.S. vs. “White” in Brazil • Why do we use the racial categories that we do? • What is the difference between the following: • White • Caucasian • European-American • Anglo-Saxon • Aryan • White (non-hispanic)

  9. Sociopolitical Perspective on Diversity: Oppression & Liberation • Oppression: Unequal relationship used unjustly to grant power & resources to 1 group (dominant group) & withhold them from another (oppressed group) • Focuses on inequalities in _____________ & _____________ power

  10. What kinds of resources can be granted/ withheld? • Jobs • Life Chances • ___________________________________________ • ___________________________________________ • Influential Networks • ___________________________________________ • ___________________________________________

  11. How have you been disadvantaged?

  12. How have you been advantaged?

  13. Diversity & Everyday Privilege • Gender-- _____________________________________ • Sexual Orientation-- ___________________________ • Race-- _____________________________________ • From Peggy McIntosh: • I cannot perform poorly without being a disgrace to my race. • I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color and have them more or less match my skin.

  14. Women & Pay Gap • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_avU7Nv0c

  15. Oppression • “Oppression is any relationship or process by which 1 group violates the physical, social, or psychological integrity of another” (Franz Fanon) • “Breathing Smog” & “conventional wisdom” • Ex: Asian American as the model minority research

  16. How Oppression Affects Communities • Mass media • Neighborhood “tipping point” • Institutional oppression • Glass Ceiling in Workplaces • Interpersonal oppression • Voice/Gender Dynamics • Inter-group relations • when prejudice becomes racism

  17. Levels of Ecological Environment • Collective resistance: Civil Rights Movement • Organizational Resistance: Association of Black Psychologists • Individual Resistance: Oppositional Identity

  18. Liberation & Social Action • “Liberation in fullest sense requires securing full human rights & remaking of a society without roles of oppressor & oppressed” (Watts, Williams, & Jager, 2003, p. 1897) • Paulo Friere’s Model of 2nd order change • Critical awareness & understanding of oppressive system • Commitment to involvement in struggle • Collective action

  19. Limitations of Oppression/ Liberation Perspective • Addresses issue of social structure/power - different emphasis from cultural perspective • May inadvertently homogenize members of oppressed groups • Portray oppressed individuals as victims • May perpetuate a conflict model of issues

  20. Extra Credit: Laramie Project • Thurs., Oct. 21st 7:30pm • Friday, Oct.22nd 7:30pm • Saturday, Oct. 23rd 2pm & 7:30pm • Sunday, Oct. 24th 2pm • $5/students & seniors; $10/adults • Reaction Paper worth up to 5 points added total grade • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awTx8iBm4u8&feature=related

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