Part 1

1. What is meant by the termskyboxification?

Give an example of this phenomena from contemporary life in the United States.

2. In what ways can grandparents contribute to the well-being of a family? In what ways can their involvement be problematic if at all.

Part 2

Answer the following

1.What have been your experiences learning about, confronting, or navigating ableism to date? How does this compare to other isms you have been exposed to?

2.Consider the information you have previously received about disabilities/impairments. How might this same information be conceptualized similarly and differently from the lenses of biomedical, interactional, and sociopolitical models of disability?

3.Which of the domains of reaction to disruptive dialogues outlined by Watt and colleagues have you experienced? What steps might you take to work through these challenging domains? Have you ever "othered" someone because of that person's disability? Have you ever had the experience of being "othered" yourself based on a perceived disability? How did you feel about this? What is your reflection on the experience(s) )?

4.What belly flops have you experienced in exploring your own points of privilege and oppression? What have you learned from these experiences? What would be your suggestions to others looking to transform self-reflective belly flops to swan dives?

Part 3

In his presentation on System Justification Theory, Jost presented research on respondent judgements of research method validity after hearing meritocratic and anti-meritocratic explanations success in the United States. What were the results? What happened to the obtained results when system threat was introduced?