Intersectionality

Question 1

What is identity?

Answer 1

A sense of who we are based on group membership(s)

Based on race
Class
Ability
Gender
Sexual orientation
Nationality
Faith

Question 2

What is privilege?

Answer 2

I earned access to resources (social power), only readily available to some people, because of their social group membership

Question 3

What is intersectionality?

Answer 3

It is concerned with privilege, social inequality and the collusion of multiple minority identities

Question 4

What is the intersectionality theory and who was it introduced by?

Answer 4

Kimberlé Crenshaw

It is a sociological theory about how an individual can face multiple threats of discrimination when their identities overlap a number of minority classes, such as race, gender, age, ethnicity, health and other characteristics

Question 5

What is consequentialism?

Answer 5

The rightness or wrongness of an action or policy based on consequences

Question 6

What is deontology?

Answer 6

Justification is based on the amount of good the action or policy will bring, rather than based on consequences of the action

Question 7

What is utilitarianism?

Answer 7

One should act to promote the greatest good for the greatest number

Question 8

What is Act utilitarianism?

Answer 8

An action becomes morally right when it produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people

Question 9

What is rule utilitarianism?

Answer 9

The moral correctness of an action depends on the correctness of the RULES that allows it to achieve the greatest good.