Affirmative Action – a set of policies and practices within a government or organization favoring certain groups based on their gender, race, creed or nationality in areas in which they were excluded in the past (such as education and employment).
Ageism (or agism) is stereotyping/discrimination against groups or individuals based on their age; ageism includes prejudicial attitudes toward older people, old age, or the aging process
Cisgender references people whose personal identity and gender corresponds with their biological sex.
Colorism -- a form of prejudice/discrimination in which people (who are usually members of the same race) are treated differently based on the social implications and cultural meanings attached to skin color.
Color Blindness – a color blind society embraces a race-neutral government with policies rejecting discrimination in any form in order to promote the goal of racial equality and idea crucial to the Civil Rights Movement and other international anti-discrimination movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
Communication Theory of Identity -- CTI recognizes that identity construction varies from culture to culture.
Critical Race Theory -- a framework of social science theories and research examining the relationships among concepts of race, law, and power.
Diversity -- an ideological stance, and for purposes of this course, diversity includes equal recognition of and respect for diversity regarding race, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, physical ability, socio-economics and related social hierarchy, religion, and social or cultural belief systems.
Gender consists of social, psychological and cultural traits generally associated with one sex or another.
Gender bias (also called gender discrimination) is discrimination toward people based on their gender identity or their gender or sex differences; gender bias is often related to workplace inequality and may arise from social or cultural customs and norms.
Gender binary references exploring gender in terms of masculinity or femininity with regard to gender identity, gender expression, and biological sex.
Gender identity is the personal sense of one’s own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person’s assigned sex at birth or may differ from it.
Ideology -- a set of philosophies or ideas forming a belief system about how things work (politically, socially or economically); an ideology often contains related ideals, attitudes, and behaviors.
Identity Freezing -- is the process of simplifying a person from a different culture, a kind of stereotyping.
Identity Negotiation Theory -- Your identity emerges through social interaction.
Intercultural Communication -- The practice of engaging in communication that recognizes differences in cultural practices, language, and other related particulars and allows for exploration of communication strategies.
Interpersonal Communication -- Describes communication between two or more people about variances in cultural and social perspectives for an optimal communicative outcome.
Intersectionality -- Examines race, sex, class, national origin, and sexual orientation, and how their combination plays out in various settings.
Meritocracy -- a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class. The supposed effectiveness of a meritocracy is based on the competence of its officials, so any standard of merit cannot be arbitrary and must also reflect the competencies required for their roles.
Nonbinary or genderqueer references the spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine (outside of the gender binary).
Physical Disabilities -- We refer to individuals who lack certain physical abilities as physically disabled. Americans with disabilities are one of the largest minority groups in the country.
Racism -- the belief that each race has certain qualities or abilities, giving rise to the belief that certain races are better than others; discrimination against or hostility towards other races.(Oxford Current English Dictionary)
Sexual orientation is a pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s sex/gender and is related to gender bias. Sexism is often linked to stereotypes and assigned gender roles.
Storytelling -- The use of narrative to illuminate and explore experiences of racial oppression; allowing individuals to share their experiences in daily life counters narratives of equality in our culture.
Structural Determinism -- Explores the structure of law in culture, hiring practices, educational requirements, I.D. requirements – anything that determines societal structure that creates pre-determined outcomes, usually lacking conscious thought; theorists offer that our system cannot redress certain kinds of wrongs.
Theory of Afrocentricity -- Focuses on the history/culture of people of African descent by countering the dominant European view that marginalized the African experience for so long, and highlights the importance of knowledge rooted in African history/culture (language, art, argument, economics, and social life).
Transgender references people whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond to their biological sex assigned at birth.
Unintentional racism -- results when an individual does not know a great deal about another race, and relies on social/racial stereotypes to form an attitude and opinion about members of that race without factual support or direct experience.
Whiteness Theory -- Scholars explore the construction of whiteness, such as when whiteness became established legally, how certain groups moved into whiteness (ex: Irish and Italians, who were originally considered “non-white” in the 19th and early 20th century), and the privileges attached to being white.
Ageism (or agism) is stereotyping/discrimination against groups or individuals based on their age; ageism includes prejudicial attitudes toward older people, old age, or the aging process
Cisgender references people whose personal identity and gender corresponds with their biological sex.
Colorism -- a form of prejudice/discrimination in which people (who are usually members of the same race) are treated differently based on the social implications and cultural meanings attached to skin color.
Color Blindness – a color blind society embraces a race-neutral government with policies rejecting discrimination in any form in order to promote the goal of racial equality and idea crucial to the Civil Rights Movement and other international anti-discrimination movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
Communication Theory of Identity -- CTI recognizes that identity construction varies from culture to culture.
Critical Race Theory -- a framework of social science theories and research examining the relationships among concepts of race, law, and power.
Diversity -- an ideological stance, and for purposes of this course, diversity includes equal recognition of and respect for diversity regarding race, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, physical ability, socio-economics and related social hierarchy, religion, and social or cultural belief systems.
Gender consists of social, psychological and cultural traits generally associated with one sex or another.
Gender bias (also called gender discrimination) is discrimination toward people based on their gender identity or their gender or sex differences; gender bias is often related to workplace inequality and may arise from social or cultural customs and norms.
Gender binary references exploring gender in terms of masculinity or femininity with regard to gender identity, gender expression, and biological sex.
Gender identity is the personal sense of one’s own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person’s assigned sex at birth or may differ from it.
Ideology -- a set of philosophies or ideas forming a belief system about how things work (politically, socially or economically); an ideology often contains related ideals, attitudes, and behaviors.
Identity Freezing -- is the process of simplifying a person from a different culture, a kind of stereotyping.
Identity Negotiation Theory -- Your identity emerges through social interaction.
Intercultural Communication -- The practice of engaging in communication that recognizes differences in cultural practices, language, and other related particulars and allows for exploration of communication strategies.
Interpersonal Communication -- Describes communication between two or more people about variances in cultural and social perspectives for an optimal communicative outcome.
Intersectionality -- Examines race, sex, class, national origin, and sexual orientation, and how their combination plays out in various settings.
Meritocracy -- a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class. The supposed effectiveness of a meritocracy is based on the competence of its officials, so any standard of merit cannot be arbitrary and must also reflect the competencies required for their roles.
Nonbinary or genderqueer references the spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine (outside of the gender binary).
Physical Disabilities -- We refer to individuals who lack certain physical abilities as physically disabled. Americans with disabilities are one of the largest minority groups in the country.
Racism -- the belief that each race has certain qualities or abilities, giving rise to the belief that certain races are better than others; discrimination against or hostility towards other races.(Oxford Current English Dictionary)
Sexual orientation is a pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s sex/gender and is related to gender bias. Sexism is often linked to stereotypes and assigned gender roles.
Storytelling -- The use of narrative to illuminate and explore experiences of racial oppression; allowing individuals to share their experiences in daily life counters narratives of equality in our culture.
Structural Determinism -- Explores the structure of law in culture, hiring practices, educational requirements, I.D. requirements – anything that determines societal structure that creates pre-determined outcomes, usually lacking conscious thought; theorists offer that our system cannot redress certain kinds of wrongs.
Theory of Afrocentricity -- Focuses on the history/culture of people of African descent by countering the dominant European view that marginalized the African experience for so long, and highlights the importance of knowledge rooted in African history/culture (language, art, argument, economics, and social life).
Transgender references people whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond to their biological sex assigned at birth.
Unintentional racism -- results when an individual does not know a great deal about another race, and relies on social/racial stereotypes to form an attitude and opinion about members of that race without factual support or direct experience.
Whiteness Theory -- Scholars explore the construction of whiteness, such as when whiteness became established legally, how certain groups moved into whiteness (ex: Irish and Italians, who were originally considered “non-white” in the 19th and early 20th century), and the privileges attached to being white.