Oppression

A Condition of Oppression

When a group of people are systematically unequal and deprived of liberty

Internalised Constraints

Internalized constraints of oppression refer to the psychological effects experienced by individuals who participate in acts of oppression, either as the object of oppression or as the initiator eg. women’s internalised misogyny as self-regulating.

Psychological Oppression

“serves to make the work of domination easier by breaking the spirit of the dominated and by rendering them incapable of understanding the nature of those agencies responsible for their subjugation.

Freedom-reduction

oppression is wrong because it reduces the freedom of the individual who is oppressed.

The Five Faces of Oppression (Young)

Exploitation, Marginalization, Powerlessness, Cultural Imperialism, Violence.

Aggregates (Young)

statistical categories eg. eye colour

Associations (Young)

voluntary organisations eg. political parties

Social Groups (Young)

structural identities formed by shared social positioning eg. Women