Study Questions Number 4 |
Student Name _____________________ Date: 9-13-07 Psychology 258 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph. D. |
| 1. | How have wages, costs of housing, healthcare, education, and taxes changed since the 1970s? At the same time, what has happened to the distribution of wealth in the United States? (C 28-31) |
| 2. | Why is it important to think of age, sexual orientation, race, social class, and religion as systems of interlocking matrix of relationships? What in the story illustrates this point? ( C&U 24-25) |
| 3. | What were the sources of Mary's (A Word and a Kindness) resilient functioning? (C&U 25-27) |
| 4. | Mary (A Word and a Kindness) experienced discrimination in school about what characteristics? (C&U 25-27) |
| 5. | Why did Mary (A Word and a Kindness) originally embrace a color-blind philosophy? (C&U 27-28) |
| 6. | How is it that black women have described a process of self-affirmation as a result of their involvement in the civil rights movement? (C&U 29-31) |
| 7. | What events led Mary (A Word and a Kindness) to develop racial awareness? (C&U 29-31) |
| 8. | Why was Mary's (A Word and a Kindness) sense of connection to the women's movement very faint? What were the reasons that black women were suspicious of the women's movement? (C&U 31-32) |
| 9. | Why does Pipher say that authenticity is an owning of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable? What do you think about that? (P 38) |
| 10. | What did Alice Miller mean when she said It's important for girls to explore the impact the culture has on their growth and development? (P 44) |