3.1 Learning Outcomes
Aimee Samara Krouskop and Kimberly Puttman
This chapter offers you the opportunity to:
- Explain how social location is studied, how it is constructed, and its consequences.
- Discuss how systems of oppression exist in society and impact people across multiple categories of social identity.
- Illustrate how structural inequity is experienced by individuals and groups.
- Apply classical theory to explain how the structure of institutions shape patterns of social inequity.
- Apply newer theory to explain how the structure of institutions shape patterns of social inequity.
the social position an individual holds within their society. It is based upon social characteristics of social class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, and religion and other characteristics that society deems important.
the systemic and extensive nature of social inequity and harm woven throughout social institutions as well as embedded within individual consciousness.
the set of characteristics by which a person is recognizable or known by the society in which they live.
differences in access to resources or opportunity between groups that are the result of treatment by a more powerful group; this creates circumstances that are unnecessary, avoidable, and unfair.
large-scale social arrangement that is stable and predictable, created and maintained to serve the needs of society.
