PSY 4327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, Equal Opportunity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4327
• Professor: Kathleen Biard

Document Summary

Equality of condition equality of outcome. Equal opportunity: access to the same options. Equality of outcome: might have same opportunities but different outcomes (access may be granted but systemic changes may not be present) The unequal access people have to a wide range of material and non-material resources, supports, provisions, and opportunities that are widely viewed as valuable and desirable in society and are consequential to our lives (olsen, 2011: 13) Social stratification the hierarchical arrangement or ordering of groups or strata in society (olsen, p. 14) Class, gender and race primary categories used to evaluate stratification based on status (olsen, p. 16 23) contemporary approaches have introduced intersectionality as fundamental to understanding their relationship(s) to power and inequality (see hankivsky, 2014) Axes of inequality: class, gender and race: primary categories used to evaluate stratification based on status. Contemporary approaches have introduced intersectionality as fundamental to understanding their relationships to power and inequality.