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Created by Zeneatha Jònsson
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| Question | Answer | 
| GINI coefficient | a commonly used use of income inequality | 
| Infant mortality rate | number of children in every 1000 who die before 5 years | 
| Life expectancy | Average age at which people are expected to die | 
| Resilliance | Ability to thrive, mature and increase competence in the face of adverse circumstances | 
| Psychological experience of poverty | 1. hopelessness 2. uncertainty about future 3. alienation from mainstream society | 
| Poverty trap | when poor people think they may never escape their poverty-stricken existence | 
| Class consciousness | Developed by Karl Marx, referring to peoples critical understanding of how the social system works | 
| Dept trap | When people habitually spend more money than they have | 
| Consumer culture | a cultural fantasy that the solution to life's problems are spending more and more on material things | 
| Social capital | like physical capital, but rather than being stored in money or property, its embedded in networks, spaces and institutions that make it possible for people to work together | 
| Cultural imperialism | when a stronger culture imposes its understandings and practices on weaker cultures | 
| Ethnicity | group that shares social features that contribute to the unique identity of that group | 
| Othering | the process of defining the self as different and separate through the creation of the other | 
| Culture | Social information that humans need to interact with each other, comprised of collective symbols and learnt aspects of society (different groups have different levels of access to this knowledge) | 
| Ethnocentrism | Degree to which individuals perceive their social group as being superior to others, while having negative feelings towards out-groups | 
| Attitude | learnt, evaluative belief systems that involve emotions and are exhibited in a fairly consistent way, and there are products of their context | 
| Steriotypes | inadequate over-generalisations applied to all the members of a perceived social category | 
| Predjudice | a negative attitude that may be based on irrational in-group beliefs about out-groups | 
| Discrimination | the behavioural manifestation of belief systems, which may or may not result in violence, depending on the extent to which it is legitimised within the socio-historical context and the degree to which it is perceived to be socially desirable of undesirable | 
| Ideology | a system of beliefs that is reflected in all social practices that may be structural or destructive | 
| Active agents | people have the capacity to develop alternative and opposing ideologies | 
| Racism | a system of beliefs about the superiority of some rases above others | 
| Anti-Islamism | a prejudice agains muslim people | 
| Anti-Semitism | a prejudice agains Jewish people | 
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