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1
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Authoritarian power can also be referred to as?

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State approved power.

2
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What are the three kinds of authoritarian power?

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Traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational.

3
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What is traditional power?

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Certain individuals have power because of custom or heredity.

4
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What are examples of traditional power?

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Monarchs or tribe leaders.

5
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What is charismatic power?

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Individuals have authority, which they gain through their popularity with the public.

6
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Authoritarian leaders who gain charismatic power usually come in a time of…

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Crisis.

7
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What are examples of authoritarian leaders who used charismatic power?

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Hitler in the 1930’s and 40’s and Mussolini from the 1920’s to the 40’s.

8
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What is legal-rational power?

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Authority that is based on the rule of law, bureaucracies, and modern institutions such as courts, constitutions, and legislations.

9
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Those who obtain legal-rational power are required to ___ to the rules and regulations of the institutions which they run.

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Conform.

10
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Who challenged the way we think about power?

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Michel Foucault.

11
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Foucault said that “We never stand outside of power, but instead are ___ by it”.

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Created.

12
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Foucault said that power is an ___.

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Entity.

13
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According to Foucault, power regulates everything er think and do- this kind of power creates ___ and ___ in our society.

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Knowledge, truth.

14
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Foucault claimed that everything we believe to be true has been created by humans. This means that truth…

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Can be changed.

15
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Give an example of the power of normal.

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Men are not to wear dresses or paint their nails.

16
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What are Iris Marion Young’s 5 faces of oppression?

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Exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence.

17
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Young’s 5 faces of oppression explores how oppression exists in ___ societies from a ___ point of view.

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Liberal, structural.

18
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Oppression can be so ___ it is hard to see sometimes.

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Engrained.

19
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A social group is a collection of people. Is this statement true or false?

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False. A social group is more than a collection of people.

20
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Members of a social group have shared ___ but also a shared sense of ___.

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Characteristics, identity.

21
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Other commonalities between members of a social group include:

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  • History.
  • Social status.
  • Relationship with external groups.
22
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Exploitation occurs through a steady process of the ___ of the results of labour of one social group to ___ another.

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Transfer, benefit.

23
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Marginalization

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The act of relegating or confining a group of people to a lower social standing or outer limit or edge of society.

24
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Why is marginalization possibly the most dangerous form of oppression?

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It prevents an entire social group from participating in a society and can cause material deprivation and extermination.

25
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Deeming a social group ‘___ ___’ can lead to marginalization.

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Less than.

26
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Excluding a group from participating in the ___ realm can lead to marginalization.

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Social.

27
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___ the voices of a marginalized group can lead to marginalization.

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Silencing.

28
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Not allowing social groups to have their ___ met can lead to marginalization.

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Needs.

29
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Cycle of marginalization denies the means to demand ___.

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Representation.

30
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Who are the powerless?

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  • Those who lack authority or power to decide policies or results.
  • Those over whom power is exercised without their exercising it.
  • Those who must take orders and rarely have the right to give them.
31
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How does ‘power over’ relate to oppression?

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???

32
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How does ‘power to’ relate to oppression?

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???

33
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Cultural Imperialism has two components: what are they?

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Rendering invisible and othering.

34
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Rendering invisible (in the context of oppression)

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When dominant groups’ values are the only ones reflected and heard.

35
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Othering (in the context of oppression)

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Rendering marginalized groups deviant, abnormal if they dare to challenge the universality of the dominant group.

36
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In oppression, is violence simply overt or also systemic?

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Violence is systemic.

37
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In oppression, violence as a systemic force is explored. This includes violence between ___ ___, and violence as ___, and to be expected.

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Social groups, normalized.