Privilege

Privilege

Privilege (/ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ/), from the Latin privilegium meaning a law for just one person, is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.

Etymology

The term privilege comes from the Latin privilegium, meaning a law applying to one person. Privilegium is a combination of privus, meaning individual, and lex, meaning law.

Related Terms

• Power (social and political): The capacity of an individual to influence the conduct (behavior) of others.
• Social inequality: The existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society.
• Discrimination: The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
• Oppression: The systematic, socially supported mistreatment and exploitation of a group or category of people by another group or category of people.
• Social justice: The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities.

See Also

• White privilege
• Male privilege
• Class privilege
• Heterosexual privilege

External links

• Medical encyclopedia article on Privilege
• Wikipedia's article - Privilege

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