HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Class, Occupational Segregation, Health Equity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Elijah Bisung

Document Summary

A conceptualized broadly, discrimination refers to a means of expressing and institutionalizing social relationships of dominance and oppression. The state and its institutions (ranging from law courts to public schools. Nonstate entities (e. g. , private-sector employers, private schools, religious organizations. Relational/interpersonal (between individuals: perpetrators is an individual. Institutional (e. g. discriminatory policies and practices: through policies and laws unfairly treating a person or a group. Structural (societal norms, beliefs that foster discrimination: beliefs and norms that creates an environment that enforces discrimination. Epistemic (knowledge creation, dominance, and discourse: used in science or use of knowledge to express dominance and overwhelm and discriminate. A person may be discriminated if they belong to one or more of these groups. They work separately or in combination: race, ethnicity. Immigrant status: gender, sexuality, disability, social class. Structural (societal norms, beliefs that foster discrimination) Symbolic racism (e. g. opposition to affirmative action) Directly, using measures of self-reported discrimination, at the individual level.