Every individual has a different social location; it may include their education, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and much more. Our social location can help us understand our position in society, how we may be classified, and the ways we are included or excluded. It can also help us understand ways we are privileged individuals or oppressed individuals. With these social locations we are placed with a certain social and political world that puts us with others. We form certain relationships through our social location and have certain experiences that relate to our social location. Through many personal experiences I realized my social location. I realized my social location through race, through gender, and also through ability/disability. All three of the experiences made me realize not just where my position was in society but it made me understand other people’s social locations.
When I was young I never truly realized how privileged nor did I realize the differences between race. I lived in a nice and comfortable house, got most of the clothes or toys I wanted, and went on many family vacations. But it never really clicked to me that not everyone else lived like me, until the age of twelve. I was a …show more content…
They were trying to leave someone out just because they had a disability. Although my classmates then and I may not have realized, now as I look back on the situation I see what they were doing. They were trying to exclude him instead of including him because they thought he was different. Instead of getting to the know the boy and becoming his friend they were treating him unfairly. Although he wasn’t in my class and before this experience I didn’t really see or have classmates with disabilities it did upset me to see the boy being treated like that. Now looking back at this personal experience I wish I would’ve known about disabilities before this and stepped
When I was young I never truly realized how privileged nor did I realize the differences between race. I lived in a nice and comfortable house, got most of the clothes or toys I wanted, and went on many family vacations. But it never really clicked to me that not everyone else lived like me, until the age of twelve. I was a …show more content…
They were trying to leave someone out just because they had a disability. Although my classmates then and I may not have realized, now as I look back on the situation I see what they were doing. They were trying to exclude him instead of including him because they thought he was different. Instead of getting to the know the boy and becoming his friend they were treating him unfairly. Although he wasn’t in my class and before this experience I didn’t really see or have classmates with disabilities it did upset me to see the boy being treated like that. Now looking back at this personal experience I wish I would’ve known about disabilities before this and stepped