Disc.Sept10-16 Question 2

The concept, “white men of privilege” is that there are social norms in our culture that white men generally have more privilege in the hierarchies of power. Harris and Nelson (2008), show in their study that in the workplace and in many of the public groups in which most college graduates participate, the power paradigm of the predominately White social and economic system continues to prevail. I agree with this concept. Most of the media still shows white men in most of the higher tiers of power in companies, groups, organizations. The social norm is brought in with birth, we just assume that white men are privileged and have powerful positions in which they are fully capable of working.