Social Science 3990 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Invisibility, Sociological Theory, Eurocentrism
23 Oct 2017
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A special right, advantage, or immunity granted available only to a particular person or group. For example, education is a right and not a privilege. Systematically conferred advantages individuals enjoy by virtue of their membership on dominant groups with access to resources and institutional power that are beyond the common advantages of marginalised citizens. Possessions of a disproportionately large share of positive social value or all those material and symbolic things for which people strive. Examples of positive social value are such things as political authority and power, good and plentiful food, splendid homes, the best available health care, wealth, and high social states. Individuals come to possess these benefits by virtue of his or her prescribed membership in a particular socially constructed group such as race religion, clan, tribe, ethnic group or social class. One automatically receives privilege by being a member of a dominant group.
