Examples of equal opportunity in the following topics:
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- Social exclusion occurs when individuals and communities are blocked from rights and opportunities that are available to others.
- Many employers in the United States, including the government, claim to be "equal opportunity employers," meaning that they will not systematically exclude groups of people from working for them on the basis of traits such as race, gender, or sexual orientation.
- It refers to processes through which individuals and entire communities of people are systematically blocked from rights, opportunities, and resources that are normally available to members of society and that are key to social integration.
- For instance, if lack of access to public transport or a vehicle prevents a person from getting to a job, training course, job center, school, or entertainment venue they may be shut out from opportunities.
- The problem of social exclusion is usually tied to that of equal opportunity, as some people are more subject to exclusion than others.
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- Educational capital can produce or reproduce inequality and also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters equal opportunity.
- For individuals who do not have a high school degree, opportunities for monetary earning fall further, $30,000 less than those with a degree.
- Students who score high on measures of sociability earn more money and get more education than equally intellectually gifted students who achieve lower scores in social skills.
- Educational capital can be utilized to produce or reproduce inequality, and it can also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters social justice and equal opportunity.
- For individuals who do not have a high school degree, opportunities for monetary earning fall further, $30,000 less than those with a degree.
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- Occupy Wall Street protesters approach inequality from a social justice perspective that holds that all Americans deserve equal life chances and have been denied them by market-oriented approaches to economic regulation (or lack thereof).
- These thinkers are likely to support state-oriented approaches to regulating inequality, with governments instating policies to equally distribute opportunities and resources.
- The idea that all members of a society should be equal is often associated with modern liberalism.
- In modern liberal societies, individuals tend to value human rights according to the idea that all people are born with equal value.
- The logic of human rights does not necessarily imply that all people should achieve equal status, but it does assume that all should have equal opportunities to advance, or Weberian life chances.
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- A common example of discrimination is the exclusion or restriction of members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group, such as access to public facilities like bathrooms and water fountains.
- In a 1979 consultation on the issue, the United States commission on civil rights defined religious discrimination in relation to the civil rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which deals with due process and equal fairness of all citizens under the law.
- According to the commission, religious discrimination occurs when someone is denied " the equal protection of the laws, equality of status under the law, equal treatment in the administration of justice, and equality of opportunity and access to employment, education, housing, public services and facilities, and public accommodation because of their exercise of their right to religious freedom. "
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- In some instances though, social mobility is used to refer to horizontal mobility, which is the movement from one position to another within the same social level, as when someone changes between two equally prestigious occupations.
- A high level of intergenerational mobility is often considered praiseworthy, and can be seen as a sign of equality of opportunity in a society.
- Social capital includes the advantages conferred by one's social network, such as access to professional opportunities and insider knowledge.
- These types of capital facilitate mobility by providing access to opportunities and the tools to acquire wealth and status.
- Each society presents different opportunities for mobility depending on its system of values.
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- Nonetheless, social mobility can also refer to horizontal mobility, movement from one position to another within the same social level, as when someone changes between two equally prestigious occupations.
- A high level of intergenerational mobility is often considered praiseworthy and can be seen as a sign of equality of opportunity in a society.
- Social capital includes the advantages conferred by one's social network, such as access to professional opportunities and insider knowledge.
- These types of capital facilitate mobility by providing access to opportunities and the tools to acquire wealth and status.
- Societies present different opportunities for mobility depending on their systems of value.
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- In 1948 the UN issued its Universal Declaration of Human Rights which protects "the equal rights of men and women", and addressed both equality and equity issues.
- These have brought women together from all over the world and provided considerable opportunities for advancing women's rights, but also illustrated the deep divisions in attempting to apply principles universally, in successive conferences in Copenhagen (1980) and Nairobi (1985).
- This included a commitment to achieve " gender equality and the empowerment of women".
- The most important strategy to achieve this was considered to be "gender mainstreaming " which incorporates both equity and equality, that is that both women and men should "experience equal conditions for realizing their full human rights, and have the opportunity to contribute and benefit from national, political, economic, social and cultural development. "
- Illustrate how the various waves of the feminist movement helped advance women in terms of social status and equality
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- Stratification results in inequality when resources, opportunities, and privileges are distributed based on position in social hierarchy.
- Thus, a child's social class has longterm effects on their access to resources and opportunities.
- For example, despite earning equal salaries, two persons may have differences in power, property, and prestige.
- Material resources are not distributed equally to people of all economic statuses.
- Macro-level analysis considers the role of economic systems in shaping individuals' resources and opportunities.
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- Describe how and why political opportunities are important to social movements according to political opportunity theory.
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- Economic class, in conjunction with race and gender, shape the opportunities, the privileges, and the inequalities experienced for individuals and groups.
- Though the storm displaced hundreds of people from all backgrounds, classes, colors and gender ‘equally,' all were not affected the same.