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Change and adaptation
change means how people, societies, or cultures evolve over time due to things like new technology, ideas, or events.
Adaptation is how individuals or groups adjust to these changes to survive or thrive.
Technology and Change
how new inventions and tools affect the way people live and do things. As technology improves, life changes in areas like communication, travel, and learning.
Competition
means when people or groups try to be better than others to achieve a goal. This can happen in sports, business, school, or society.
Power
Ability to exercise one’s will over others.
Parity
Equal participation of all sexes in sports, business
Equality
Each individual or group of people are given the same resources or opportunities.
Equity
Recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.
Justice
Action; people have access to what they need; ensuring that systems and institutions provide for everyone.
Social Structure
Groups, communities, organizations.
Social Categories
Age, gender/sex, class, race, religion, ability etc.
Social Institutions
Things that socialize us (family, religion, politics, law, government, education).
People who come together for a common purpose.
Includes rules and procedures.
Social Force
Influencing, pressuring, or forcing people to behave, interact with others and think in specific ways.
System
An organization of individuals that make up groups that often have different functions, characteristics, origin or status.
Eg; Legal systems, healthcare systems, economic systems (banks).
Systemic: part of a party. .
Challenge and Change Picture Analysis ( Tree)
The Tree:
Represents a society/system/institution
The wood holding up the tree represents support within the society.
The tilt in the trees represents equality or inequality depending on their circumstance, can either benefit an individual or disadvantage them.
Challenge and Change Picture Analysis ( Equality/Inequality)
Can help people get what they need to help them in their specific situations.
Sometimes not enough which means they have no access to their needs.
Won’t be enough if institutions are unequal.
Challenge and Change Picture Analysis ( Justice)
Provides access to people based on their needs/ circumstances.
Helps to solve problems from the root.
Make sure that people have the right access and equal opportunities for everyone.
Will be fixed if something is wrong within the institution and system that are controlled.
Demographic analysis
the study of a population based on factors such as age, race, sex. Demographic data refers to socioeconomic information expressed statistically including employment, education, income, marriage rate, birth and death rates and more. ( connected patterns and more)
Racism
Presumed biological or cultural superiority of one or more racial groups is used to justify or prescribed the inferior treatment or social positions of other racial groups
Defining race
A social construct, but meaningless when applied to humans, physical differences have no natural association with group differences in ability to behaviour race has tremendous significance in structuring social reality
Stratification
To sort or divide data, people, objects info distinct groups or layers
exploitation
To exploit someone is to take unfair advantage of them. It is to use another person’s unviability for one’s own benefit.
Anti-Racism:
Actively working to challenge and dismantle racism by changing systems, policies, and attitudes.
Bias
Prejudice for or against someone, either consciously or unconsciously, leading to unfair treatment.
Competitive Sport:
Organized sports focused on competition and winning.
Discrimination:
Unfair treatment of people based on race, gender, disability, religion, etc.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI):
Ensuring all people, especially underrepresented groups, are welcomed, included, and treated fairly.
High Performance Sport
Sports programs that support athletes aiming for elite competitions like the Olympics or World Championships.
Organized Sport
Sports with set rules and structures, run by official organizations, often leading to competitions.
Podium Pathway
A system that helps athletes reach top levels in their sport, like national or international competitions.
Racism
Systems or actions that create unfair opportunities or outcomes based on race.
Race
Grouping people by physical traits like skin color, often based on social, not scientific, ideas.
Racialized Persons and Groups
People labeled as belonging to a race, often facing unfair treatment due to racial identity.
Stereotypes
Oversimplified, generalized ideas about a group of people.
Tokenism
Including a few people from minority groups just for appearances, without genuine inclusion.
White Persons and Groups:
People identified as ‘white,’ a social category created through history to group certain ethnicities.
