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.
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