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property
thumb|Buildings of shops, hotels, and residences are prevalent forms of property. Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, rent, sell, exchange, transfer, give away, or destroy it, or to exclude others from doing these things, as well as to perhaps abandon it; whereas regardless of the nature of the property, the owner thereof has the right to properly use it under the granted property rights.
race
nonscientific human classification system primarily based on physical appearance
gender equality
state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making
racial segregation
separation of humans based on race
social justice
concept that discrimination recognized in society should be remedied
social stratification
society's categorization of its people into hierarchical groups based on socioeconomic factors
social inequality
uneven distribution of resources in a society
income inequality
distribution of income or wealth between different groups
digital divide
inequality of access to information and communication technologies
oppression
Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment of, or exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of governmental authority. There are many scholars who have attempted to define oppression, usually by the types of harm suffered by those who are persecuted.
social equality
state of affairs in which all people in a society have the same status in certain respects
social mobility
mobility to move social classes
social exclusion
form of social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society
double standard
application of different sets of justifications for situations that are essentially the same
dehumanization
thumb|right|upright=1.2|link=Warsaw Ghetto boy|In his Stroop Report|report on the suppression of the [[Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Jürgen Stroop described Jews resisting deportation to Nazi camps as "bandits".]] thumb|Lynndie England pulling a leash attached to the neck of a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison, who is forced to crawl on the floor, while [[Megan Ambuhl watches, 2003.]]
gender inequality
idea and situation that women and men are not treated as equal
equal opportunity
state of fairness in which individuals are all treated the same (with justified exceptions)
public toilet
toilet and washroom for anyone to use
ruling class
social class of a given society that decides upon and sets that society's political agenda
Discourse on Inequality
work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
rape of males
type of sexual violence perpetrated against males
feminist ethics
approach to ethics
Inequality
Inequality may refer to:
primary health care
essential health care accessible to all individuals and families in a community
stereotype threat
situational predicament in which people feel at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group
kyriarchy
In feminist theory, kyriarchy ( ) is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission. The word was coined by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 to describe her theory of interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission, in which a single individual might be oppressed in some relationships and privileged in others. It is an intersectional extension of the idea of patriarchy beyond gender. Kyriarchy encompasses forms of dominating hierarchies in which the subordination of one individual or group to anot
second-class citizen
person who is systematically discriminated against within a state
dominant minority
minority group that holds a disproportionate amount of power
educational inequality
uneven distribution of academic resources, including school funding, experienced teachers, textbooks, and technology
social determinants of health
economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status
social polarization
segregation of society into different social groups
model minority
view that a group that achieves a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population at large
social question
concept
social equity
concept that applies concerns of justice and fairness to social policy
sex differences in human physiology
physical differences between human females and males
Laudate Deum
2023 exhortation of Pope Francis
rape by gender
overview of rape
The Power Elite
book by Charles Wright Mills (1956)
Rankism
Rankism is "abusive, discriminatory, and/or exploitative behavior towards people because of their rank in a particular hierarchy". Rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, supremacism (often white supremacy), xenophobia, hazing, ageism, sexism, ableism, sanism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. The term "rankism" was popularized by physicist, educator, and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller.
Equality of outcome
political concept
achieved status
social position achieved by actions
ascribed status
social status based on immutable characteristics
Inverse care law
adage about availability of health care
power distance
strength of social hierarchy
social dominance orientation
personality trait favoring social hierarchies
Great Gatsby curve
economical chart plotting inequality and intergenerational social immobility
World Inequality Database
database of wealth and income distribution
International Association for Feminist Economics
organization
transport divide
unequal access to transportation which can result in social exclusion of disadvantaged groups
distinction
social phenomenon whereby members of one social group differentiate themselves intentionally or unintentionally from members of other social groups
Middleman minority
Minority whose main occupations link producers and consumers
Access to finance
Acting white
pejorative term
gender inequality in Japan
article focusing on gender equality in Japan.
gender inequality in China
overview of gender inequality in China
social deprivation
limited access to society's resources caused by poverty, discrimination or other disadvantage