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What is the difference between somatic and cultural norm images?

Somatic norm images have to do with the body, cultural norm images connect with attitudes and behaviour.

What is the conclusion of the clip of the Dutch police recruitment video?

women are warm and caring, men are strong and violent

What is the underlying essence of the bridgebuilder?

is presupposing difference; we need him to get across the other side, which is framed in a positive way. It is deferring responsibility to a very specific group of people in an organization; we are bridgebuilders.
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Possible exam question = Which of the 4D's is best with the 'bridgebuilder' concept?

it is difference and diversity: it is well-intended to create space in an organization.

What is the definition of "self-wanted exclusion"?

When minority groups find each other and may let it seem that they want to be excluded --> see the comic on the Dutch police officers blaming other officers with a migration background having lunch together

What are implications of the added value discourse?


• Dichotomous categorizations of groups sustains a gendered and racialized division of labour
• Assumes deficiency
• Despite good intentions, strongly prescriptive
• Instrumentalization & commodification of bodies for economic purposes –> feeling used and abused.

What is the conclusion of the quote of Karen van Oudenhoven in the VU magazine about diversity?

she is making minorities responsible to diversity: she is shifting away from dominant categories. To Çenkaya, it is more about the established and less about outsiders.

What is the conclusion of the quote by Pat Parker: "The first thing you must forget is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black."?

double bind. It is the combination of see me (difference) and do not see me (sameness). It is the distinction between business and society case of diversity.

What is the ideology of colorblindness?

Sometimes we do have to make differences in certain relevant context. We have an obsession with ethnicity: we look at all social problems in this way when ignoring

What is the bodycount of diversity?

Rarely challenging the existing order, makes minorities responsible for diversity and masks whiteness and masculinity.

What is the weakness of diversity policies?

Cultural cloning & norm images can lead to inclusion without dismantling unequal and unjust structures within organizations, institutions or society

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