SWRK1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collectivism, Ableism, Classical Liberalism
14 May 2021
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Large communities, systems, laws, and social policies. Looks at the socio-political and economic systems that promote oppression, Oppression can be somewhat simply described as the domination of subordinate groups in society by a powerful (politically, economically, socially, culturally) group (mullaly, Domination, also somewhat simply defined, is the ability for one social group to systematically control, manipulate, and use other people for its own ends (goodman, Privilege as a group(s)sharing a general lack of consciousness of their privilege, of denying and avoiding knowledge of oppression, and of carrying an unrecognized sense of superiority and entitlement. (goodman, 2001, p. 13). Allies: allies are people who recognize the unearned privilege they receive from society"s patterns of injustice and take responsibility for changing these patterns. White" people who work to end racism: men who work to end sexism, heterosexual people who work to end homo/transphobia, able-bodied people who work to end ableism, etc.
