Practice mode Social Stratification

What term describes how different parts of a person’s identity, such as class, ethnicity, gender, disability and location, interact to create complex patterns of inequality, poverty and discrimination?

Correct answer D. Intersectionality

Explanation

Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced intersectionality to show that overlapping identities produce distinctive disadvantages that cannot be understood by examining each division separately.

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