Ethics Unit 5 Review

Oppressive structures occur at various levels of society. Match the level with its correct description.

• One's private (and unexpressed) thoughts

• Societal/Cultural

• Publicly expressed, though informal, behavior, speech, and ideas

• Individual

• The overall norms of a society in a given time period. This level includes all of the others.

• Institutional

• Formalized social structures (for example: laws, policies, hiring practices, elected leaders, etc.)

• Interpersonal

Match the following with its correct description

• A teaching letter from a pope to the global community

• Charity

• Short term temporary assistance that comes by way of a direct encounter with others.

• Justice

• A long term solution that changes the underlying system that lead to the injustice

• Encyclical

If one of us had never heard of San Quentin's death row before, discussing it in class would place this person at what stage of the "Circle of Social Action"? The three choices are: awareness, analysis, action

As someone who has visited San Quentin's Death Row, Archbishop Cordileone is very aware of this social structure. His article in America Magazine attempted to share his analysis of the Death Penalty. His call to abolish the Death Penalty is at what stage of the Circle of Social Action? The three choices are: awareness, analysis, action

In your own words, what is a social structure?

True or False: Each person has, essentially, one social identity: you are either an agent or a target, but you cannot be both. 

• True

• False

A part of yourself that has power or privilege in certain social contexts could be called a _ identity. 

What is true of a target identity, according to how we discussed the term this unit?

• It is only a label for a part of yourself for which you have been physically or verbally attacked. 

• It describes a part of yourself that has power or privilege in certain social contexts. 

• It could describe aspects of yourself for which you have been attacked, but it could also describe any aspect of yourself that feels marginalized in a certain context. 

• It describes the characteristics that you tend to look down upon in other people, whether consciously or unconsciously.  

A general belief about a group of people that is not necessarily negative (and that may even contain a bit of truth) would be called

• Discrimination

• Prejudice

• Stereotyping

• Implicit Bias

A conscious but unexpressed negative belief about another person (or group of people) is called:

• Discrimination

• Prejudice

• Stereotyping

• Implicit Bias