Lesson Analysis

Types of Privileges

In this lesson, we learned about the elements of privilege in the society. To give a more brief understanding regarding privileges. Consider the example that you are a Christian living in the United states of America, you will have more privileges as compared to others, as your beliefs are readily accepted as compared to people belong to other religions. There are many places of worship available for Christians in the United States of America. Now, consider if you are a Hispanic living in the United States of America you tend to hide your nationality form other people, as they think of Hispanic people are somehow inferior. There are three types of privileges that we have studied in our class.

Gender

It refers to the inequalities and the advantages that are distinctive between people belonging to different genders. Most commonly it is the advantages that men have over women. It has been seen historically that we live in a male dominated society.

Racial

The lesson briefly describes the difference between privileges, racism, and discrimination, according to the author these are all active form of oppression, but they are not the same. Privileges are not visible to its true holders it has been seen often that people who are among the dominant group of the society do not recognize its importance

Social class

It is the reality that people who works hard gets rewarded for their hard work. It has been seen often that people in higher social class starts to believe that they are better than the others residing in the society. This thinking can generate classism in the society. This article will lead you towards the understanding of how social classism can lead to privilege.

The Johari window

Open quadrant

The open quadrant consists of both the things ones that I know about myself, and the ones that other know about me. Consider as an example my name, I certainly know my name, this is information that others know about me. This quadrant develops as time passes as people get to know each other more they start to share their feelings and interests (Luft. J & Ingham. H, 1955).

Blind Quadrant

This area of quadrant in neither effective nor productive space for the individual residing inside it, because the people living inside this area do not have knowledge of what others think about them. In these areas, there are certain issues that are being withhold deliberately. ...