Privilege by Michael S. Kimmel

Author:Michael S. Kimmel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780813350400
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2016-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

discussion questions and activities

Discussion or Journal Questions

1.What were some of the most powerful and memorable insights you gained? In the first section, you examined some of the forms of privilege you benefit from. We all share the experience of benefitting from some form of privilege. Is it possible to opt out? To refuse to benefit from your privilege?

2.What is intersectionality? How does examining intersectionality change our understanding of our privilege?

3.Re-read and respond to the three questions posed by Messner at the end of his chapter.

4.Each chapter in this section examines examples of the ways in which privilege is reproduced and maintained. Identify examples of how this occurs at the individual level as well as at the level of social systems.

5.Individual behaviors both shape and are shaped by social systems. Identify examples in this section of how this occurs in terms of the maintenance of privilege.

6.Kendall examines the reproduction of class privilege. How does gender shape the ways in which women are involved in perpetuating class privilege?

7.Select another social identity, and examine some of the ways in which is it reproduced and maintained over generations.

8.Identify examples of resistance found in these readings.

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