COM 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, White Privilege
9 Oct 2018
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While diversity categories vary from one country to the next, the sense of exclusion and unfairness transcends national and cultural boundaries. The concept of inclusion-exclusion in the workforce refers to: An individual"s sense of being a part of the organizational system in the formal processes, specifically, access to information and decision-making channels. The informal processes, more specifically, water cooler and lunch meetings because information and decisions informally take place. Help to make sense of how things work. Theories give us a framework to explain how things work. Orienting theories sensitize us to the issues involved. Explanatory theories explain why relationships between concepts and phenomenon happen. Systematic, pervasive, white privilege/ marginalized people of color. Victims of racism are affected by cultural perceptions of race. Race impacts society, societal structures, and power in workplaces. This theory sensitizes us to the importance of viewing the overlap between different forms of social inequality, oppression, and discrimination to create a multidimensional picture of diversity.
