Week 10

                                                              Institutional Inequity
This is the large scale oppression that is hard to go unnoticed, but is also very hard to combat. There are many factors that go into any kind of Institutional Inequity. However, I would like to first break break down to the phrase for deeper understanding. Institution, being any large establishment like companies, universities, and other large organizations. Inequity, any form of unfairness or justice. When the both are enacted within an institution itself, it becomes this social injustice that is very difficult to combat. In the reading "Domination and Subordination" by Jean Baker Miller, Miller discusses the different types of inequalities and different sides of inequality. Miller starts off talking about temporary inequalities which really doesn't deal with oppression as much as other social injustices, but it provides an factor that is used within institutions. For example, the temporary inequality in between the student in the teacher. The teacher being the dominant figure within the institution and  the student the subordinate. Pinkus helps compare and contrasts the different forms of discrimination. Pinkus presents three forms of discrimination, Individual, Institutional, and Structural. Although, they all have similarities they actually differ, depending on small  factors. Institutional discrimination differs from depending on the amount of people enacting the discrimination. Also institutional discrimination differs from structural discrimination based of the intentions of the organization. On the film Prison State, it depicts how the criminal justice system has became a major influence institutionalized massincarciraton. This film shows the vicious cycle of low income neighborhood, broken families, poor education system and drugs. The cycle that leads individuals in jail that don't need to be incarcerated.

Week 14

Week 14

Well it has to start somewhere, and the good thing about it is that there is always going to be people to help and different ways to assist people. That is one of the beauties about advocating and activist,and that is what I got from the many different Ted talks and videos from this week's material. To piggy back off last week topic of how one just doing something so small can have an impact on a social injustice. Well, this week's topic is fitting for an individual that has made their mind up that they want to help and is wanting to know which way would be effective for them.  After reading Alexander's text, one can see the many different forms of advocating, and the groups of individuals that it indeed affected and didn’t. Meaning that something that you could be an advocate for and possibly have or make another social justice go unnoticed. Which isn’t always intentional. Actually, to me it's an eye opener, which makes an individual develop  passion, for which social injustice that they plan on standing up against.  Also, as we know things change with time and some that was fought against 60 years can find a new way to suppress individuals. This is also something that I believed that Alexander was getting to in the text. For example The Civil Right and the activist involved were standing up against inequality and discrimination against minorities, and which from a political standpoint they were very successful.  However, the form of suppression has change, there is a new form of discrimination, now African Americans are more subjected to being easily tried as adults and getting wrongfully sentenced. This is thought of as the new form of Jim Crow and which other group of advocates will have to stand up against. So there is people who need help and there should be people for their assistance.