GROUP PRIVILEGES AND DISADVANTAGES

1) Consider your racial group identity. What privileges do you receive because of this group membership? In other words, what good things happen to you, or may happen to you, because of this group membership?

What disadvantages do you receive because of your racial group membership?

2) Consider your gender group identity. What privileges do you receive because of this group membership? In other words, what good things happen to you, or may happen to you, because of this group membership?

What disadvantages do you receive because of your gender group membership?

3) How does it feel to consider the privileges you receive because of a group you belong to?

4) How does it feel to consider the disadvantages you receive because of a group you belong to?

5) Do the effects of considering privileges and disadvantages of group membership depend on the actual power and status of that group in society? How?

6) How might people react to the effects of thinking about privilege or disadvantage. How might each affect group identification?

from Michael Schmitt