- "Social privilege is a theory of special advantage or entitlement that benefits individuals belonging to certain groups, often to the detriment of others."
The unearned advantages or benefits that members of certain social groups have over others, often based on their race, gender, class, sexuality, or ability.
Intersectionality: The theory that highlights how different social identities (such as race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability) interact and influence experiences of discrimination and privilege.
Privilege: The advantages and benefits conferred to individuals based on their social identity, which can include race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability.
Systemic oppression: The way in which societal structures and institutions contribute to the marginalization and oppression of certain groups.
Microaggressions: Subtle, everyday actions or language that can perpetuate prejudice and discrimination towards marginalized groups.
Implicit bias: Unconscious attitudes and stereotypes that influence our decision-making and behavior towards others.
Dominant culture: The norms and values that are most widely accepted and practiced within a society, often reflecting the experiences and perspectives of privileged groups.
Allyship: The active and intentional support of marginalized groups and individuals, often by those who hold privileged identities.
Intersectional feminism: A feminist approach that recognizes and addresses the ways in which different social identities intersect and contribute to oppression and privilege.
Queer theory: An analysis of sex, gender, and sexuality that challenges traditional and binary understandings of these concepts.
Critical race theory: An approach that examines the ways in which race and racism are embedded in societal structures and institutions, and how they perpetuate inequality and oppression.
White privilege: The systematic advantages that people who are perceived as white in society have over individuals who are members of marginalized ethnic groups.
Male privilege: The social, economic, and political advantages that men usually experience over women, non-binary, and transgender individuals based solely on their gender.
Cisgender privilege: The benefits that individuals whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned at birth receive in society, and that transgender people may not have.
Heterosexual privilege: Advantages that people who are living in accordance with societal expectations about sexual orientation receive over those who do not, such as LGBTQ+ people.
Class privilege: The benefits that people with higher income or wealth have over those who are economically disadvantaged or working-class.
Able-bodied privilege: The advantages that people who are physically and mentally fit have in comparison to those with disabilities, such as access to spaces and opportunities.
Educational privilege: The advantages that come with having a higher degree of education, such as better job opportunities, higher pay, and greater social status.
Beauty privilege: The societal benefits that people with physical features that are considered attractive have over those who do not conform to prevailing beauty standards.
Nationality and citizenship privilege: The privileges that people enjoy if they are citizens of a certain country or if they are from one region of the world as opposed to another.
- "Privileged groups can be advantaged based on social class, wealth, education, caste, age, height, skin color, physical fitness, nationality, geographic location, cultural differences, ethnic or racial category, gender, gender identity, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, physical disability, religion, and other differentiating factors."
- "Individuals can be privileged in one area, such as education, and not privileged in another area, such as health."
- "The amount of privilege any individual has may change over time, such as when a person becomes disabled, or when a child becomes a young adult."
- "The concept of privilege is generally considered to be a theoretical concept used in a variety of subjects and often linked to social inequality."
- "It began as an academic concept but has since been invoked more widely, outside of academia."
- "Privilege is also linked to social and cultural forms of power."
- "This subject is based on the interactions of different forms of privilege within certain situations."
- "Furthermore, it must be understood as the inverse of social inequality, in that it focuses on how power structures in society aid societally privileged people, as opposed to how those structures oppress others."
- "Privilege is a theory of special advantage or entitlement that benefits individuals belonging to certain groups, often to the detriment of others."
- "Privileged groups can be advantaged based on... ethnic or racial category."
- "It focuses on how power structures in society aid societally privileged people."
- "Privileged groups can be advantaged based on... gender, gender identity..."
- "Privileged groups can be advantaged based on... geographic location..."
- "Privileged groups can be advantaged based on... religion..."
- "Privileged groups can be advantaged based on... physical fitness..."
- "The amount of privilege any individual has may change over time, such as when a person becomes disabled..."
- "Individuals can be privileged in one area, such as education..."
- "Privileged groups can be advantaged based on... cultural differences..."
- "Privileged groups can be advantaged based on... age..."