Class discrimination , classism ( Eng. Classism ) - discrimination by social class or prejudice towards members of a particular class. The term is used in relation to both domestic and institutionalized discrimination [1] .
Article 14 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms prohibits classism along with other types of discrimination (gender, racial, religious, etc.).
Content
Levels and Varieties
The American economist Chuck Barone identifies several levels of class discrimination:
- Macro level : systematic exploitation and oppression of one class by another.
- Intermediate level : prejudice, prejudice against representatives of discriminated classes in public opinion (for example, the idea that low-income people are by definition stupid or lazy). An important role at this level is given to the media .
- Micro level : domestic discrimination, infringement of other people's interests at the person-person level [2] .
Barone distinguishes between discrimination against workers and discrimination against the poor as different manifestations of classicism [2] .
Links to other forms of discrimination
The German sociologist Bettina Ross writes that “today it is considered undeniable that racism , sexism and classicism work to support each other and have much in common, although they do not completely overlap” [3] .
The analysis of the relationship between different systems of discrimination deals with the theory of intersectionality .
See also
- Discrimination
- Social class
- Class struggle
- Intersectionality
- Marxism
Notes
- ↑ Langhout, Regina Day; Rosselli, Francine; Feinstein, Jonathan (Winter 2007), Assessing Classism in Academic Settings , The Review of Higher Education 30 (2): 145–184
- ↑ 1 2 Chuck Barone: Classism , in: Robert E. Weir (Hrsg.): Class in America. An Encyclopedia , Greenwood Press 2007, ISBN 978-0-313-33719-2 , S. 139 et seq.
- ↑ Bettina Roß: Migration, Geschlecht und Staatsbürgerschaft , Politik und Geschlecht, (= Reihe: Politik und Geschlecht, vol. 16), VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-8100-4078-7 , S. 18