Understanding Social Gaps, Discrimination, and Equality

Understanding Social Disparities

Gaps: Absence of Resources

Gaps refer to the absence of capacities or resources generally considered necessary to fully develop a person's human potential.

Peculiarities: Distinguishing Characteristics

Peculiarities are the characteristics of certain individuals or groups who are perceived by the rest of society as distinct.

Indifference: Lack of Compassion

Indifference is the attitude of a lack of interest and compassion that leads us to worry more about the situation and problems of others.

Xenophobia: Fear of Strangers

Xenophobia, from the Greek, signifies the fear of the stranger or foreigner. It applies to attitudes and hate towards foreign people.

Attitudes: Positive or Negative Dispositions

Attitudes are positive or negative dispositions towards certain persons or things that influence our behavior in relation to them.

Active Acceptance: Positive Regard

Active acceptance is a positive attitude towards persons or property resulting in open and fluid treatment of opportunity for them.

Equality: Improving Society

Equality is initially set to improve society, making available to individuals opportunities that should depend on ability and merit.

Solidarity: Support and Assistance

Solidarity is the attitude, behavior, and assistance to those individuals and groups with whom we somehow feel united.

Social Discrimination: Unfavorable Treatment

Social discrimination is the unfavorable treatment given to a community based on racial, religious, political, or social characteristics.

Declared Discrimination: Publicly Recognized

Declared discrimination is publicly recognized and specified in discriminatory rules and even laws.

Disguised Discrimination: Hidden Prejudice

Disguised discrimination is not openly recognized but exists and acts surreptitiously.

Patriarchal Societies: Male Supremacy

Patriarchal societies are based on the principle of male supremacy. In them, women live under the authority of their parents first and then their husbands.

Traditional Society: Pre-Modern Era

Traditional society is pre-modern. It is based on tradition, so what is accepted is uncritical.

Modern Society: Post-Industrial Revolution

Modern society is formed because of the transformations that began in the late eighteenth-century industrial revolution, urbanization, liberal revolutions, and democratic movements.

Feminist Movement: Women's Rights

The feminist movement is formed from the nineteenth century by various groups of women committed to the cause of women's rights.

Gender: Societal Distinction

Gender is the distinction between man and woman as society understands it.

Sexist: Devaluing a Gender

Sexist attitudes tend to devalue and discriminate against a gender in relation to the other.

Conciliation: Balancing Work and Life

Conciliation refers to the possibility of reconciling employment with other activities, especially family.