According to Young, new left social movements have suggested that oppression is not always recognized but due to everyday practices of well-intentioned people who do not understand themselves as agents of oppression. Such oppression that refers to systemic constraints on a group is in this sense a. epidemic. b. structural. c. justified. d. privileged.

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5 April, 15:15

According to Young, new left social movements have suggested that oppression is not always recognized but due to everyday practices of well-intentioned people who do not understand themselves as agents of oppression. Such oppression that refers to systemic constraints on a group is in this sense a. epidemic. b. structural. c. justified. d. privileged.

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Matias Hull · Answer 1

b. structural

Explanation:

Oppression is a practice of harmful and malicious pattern of injustice or unjust treatment given in a societal group or a regime.

In 1960s and 1970s, the new left social movements have changed the meaning of oppression. According to Young, oppression is the injustice and the disadvantage that people suffer due to the everyday practices of the well intentional liberal society.

Oppression may be also referred to the systemic constraints on the groups which are not the result of objectives of the tyrant. In this sense oppression is considered as structural.