Marginalization

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The social, economic, and political exclusion of individuals or groups based on their social identities, often resulting in unequal opportunities and outcomes.

Intersectionality: This topic explores how different identities such as race, gender, class, and sexuality intersect to create unique forms of oppression and marginalization.
Power and privilege: This topic delves into how power dynamics and privilege operate within different systems and institutions and contribute to marginalization.
Structural inequality: This topic examines how social, economic, and political structures can create and perpetuate marginalization.
Social exclusion: This topic is focused on the ways in which individuals and groups are excluded from participation in social, economic, and political spheres.
Discrimination: This topic explores the different ways in which individuals and groups face discrimination based on their identities.
Social justice: This topic examines the principles of social justice and how it can be used to promote equity and inclusion.
Human rights: This topic explores the different human rights frameworks and how they can be used to challenge marginalization.
Diversity: This topic focuses on recognizing and valuing differences and promoting inclusion across different identities, cultures, and backgrounds.
Oppression: This topic examines the ways in which power, privilege, and discrimination create oppressive conditions that marginalize certain individuals and groups.
Advocacy: This topic explores the different strategies and approaches to advocating for marginalized communities and promoting social justice.
Economic marginalization: This occurs when individuals or communities are denied access to economic resources and opportunities due to poverty, discrimination, or other factors.
Political marginalization: This inhibits political participation and access to political power or influence, often based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or other factors.
Cultural marginalization: Occurs when individuals or communities are excluded or devalued based on their cultural or ethnic identity, language, or heritage.
Legal marginalization: This limits access to justice for individuals or communities due to discriminatory laws, policies or practices in the legal system.
Disability marginalization: This involves treating individuals with disabilities unequally or unfairly, often based on negative stereotypes or assumptions.
Educational marginalization: This occurs when a population is denied, restricted or provided limited access to education.
Health marginalization: Limiting access to health care and support based on discriminatory practices or laws can lead to marginalized communities being left without the necessary care they need.
Discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity that results in marginalization.: Discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity results in marginalization, where individuals are excluded or oppressed due to their non-conforming sexual orientation or gender identity.
Age-related marginalization, where impeding opportunities or access to resources based on growing old: .
- "Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society." - "It is a term that has been used widely in Europe and was first used in France in the late 20th century." - "Social exclusion is the process in which individuals are blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group." - "It is used across disciplines including education, sociology, psychology, politics, and economics."
- "It is used across disciplines including education, sociology, psychology, politics, and economics."
- "Alienation or disenfranchisement resulting from social exclusion can be connected to a person's social class, race, skin color, religious affiliation, ethnic origin, educational status, childhood relationships, living standards, and or political opinions, and appearance." - "Such exclusionary forms of discrimination may also apply to disabled people, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, drug users, institutional care leavers, the elderly and the young."
- "The outcome of social exclusion is that affected individuals or communities are prevented from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the society in which they live." - "This may result in resistance in the form of demonstrations, protests, or lobbying from the excluded people."
- "Such exclusionary forms of discrimination may also apply to disabled people, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, drug users, institutional care leavers, the elderly and the young."
- "Anyone who appears to deviate in any way from perceived norms of a population may thereby become subject to coarse or subtle forms of social exclusion."
- "The concept of social exclusion has led to the researcher's conclusion that in many European countries the impact of social disadvantages, that influence the well-being of all people, including with special needs, has an increasingly negative impact."
- "Social exclusion is a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which they live."
- "Insufficient access to social rights, material deprivation, limited social participation, and a lack of normative integration."
- "It is then regarded as the combined result of personal risk factors (age, gender, race); macro-societal changes (demographic, economic and labor market developments, technological innovation, the evolution of social norms); government legislation and social policy; and the actual behavior of businesses, administrative organizations, and fellow citizens." Note: Due to text length limitations, only a few quotes could be included for each question. Refer to the original paragraph for additional information and context.