1. SW 840
Week 3

2. I Can’t Teach What It is Like To Be
LGBT
A person of color
A person with a disability
To be an elder
To be a Muslim

3. Together We Can Become Aware
Of Privilege
What it means to be
Male, White
Heterosexual
Middle class
Young
Able of body and mind

4. A Stable Society Dependent upon morals and values
People internalize values through socialization.
Cultural values and status related norms develop from a dichotomy called achievement/ascription (Ritzer, 1996).

5. Ascriptive Qualities Qualities that are ascribed to a person
Sex, age, race or family status

6. Achievement One’s achievements based upon performance?
Frequently, in our Society ascriptive features were to be valued over achievement (Ritzer, p.32, 1996).

7. Societies evolved on the basis of ascriptive qualities related to kinship, ethnic solidarity, primary groups, and territorial grouping.
In modern societies, the strength of these ascriptive qualities may have decreased on the surface, but they are so fundamental to social functioning, that they are never completely eliminated (Mayhew, 2002).

8. All societies develop a mechanism or a means to distribute wealth, power and opportunity.
Often these resources are shared inequitably.
One way to ensure one group benefits over other groups is to establish a system of privilege.

9. Social Identity Culture Norms – shared expectations and rules
Values – freedom; equality; achievement and success (hard work)

10. Dominant Culture (making generalizations)
In this society the norms and values transmitted represent
Christian White middle class men who are heterosexual, and middle aged,
who are not challenged with any physical or mental disabilities, etc.

11. Rape statistics rise
Native American women on reservations experience highest number of assaults in the country. Perpetrators are most frequently non-Indians.
Do men view these stats differently than do women
Do Indian’s view differ from non-Indians?

12. Funding cuts Mental health and substance abuse facilities closed
Services for developmentally disabled curtailed
Home visits for elderly suspended
What do you think about these cuts and why?

13. Hate Crimes on the rise LGBT students in colleges report
Harassment in dorms and while walking on campus
If you are heterosexual are you worried?

14. Right Wing Extremist Groups On the Rise since Obama’s Election
Right Wing Extremist Groups On the Rise since Obama’s Election. Threats from White supremacist group up source:
Does such a report affect White People differently than it does people of color?

15. One’s identity Impacts how one processes information
It often privileges you to not think about the headlines
One identity that is rarely discussed
is White Identity

16. White Identity In our society We talk about race
We talk about “minorities”
We don’t about what it means to be White

17. When was the first time you realized you were White?
When was the first time you were aware of your race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or different somehow?

18. We are all at different places on the continuum of looking at the privilege that is associated with our identities

19. Asian, Black, Latino, Native People Racism
Social Identity
Categories
Privileged
Social Groups
Targeted
Ism
Race
White People
Asian, Black, Latino, Native People
Racism
Sex
Bio Men
Bio Women
Sexism
Sexual Orientation
Heterosexual People
Lesbians, Gay Men
Heterosexism
Class
Rich, Upper Class Middle Class People
Working Class, Poor
People
Classism
Ability/Disability
Temporarily Abled Bodied People
People with
Disabilities
Ableism
Gender
Gender Conforming
And Women
Transgender,
Genderqueer,
Intersex People
Transgender
Oppression

20. Africa Asia Europe South America
Which Continent sends Immigrants to the US who are the most educated and most successful occupationally?
Africa
Asia
Europe
South America