Fabric Of Oppression

Another theory of socialisation that "describes the structural arrangement of privileges, resources and power," but it is based on the liberal view of how institutions can create inequities. The Fabric of Oppression itself creates some groups that are dominant by it and others that are oppressed by it, which has a slight Culture of Power ring to it, as once again there is a central group that profits and a marginalised group that does not. The similarity becomes even more apparent when the article explains that once again males have more access to power than what females do, which was another proponent of the Culture of Power argument. The theory contains definitions such as bigotry, discrimination, prejudice, social groups, social power, resources and privileges and oppression.
The Fabric of Oppression relies heavily on Institutionalised oppression, which refers to "the web of organisations and systems that perpetuate unequal access." This can be both legal (overt), illegal (covert) or self perpetuating and systematic. Targeted members of groups may be subject to internalised oppression, this occurs when "an individual takes external misinformation, stereotypes and negative images about their group and turns them inward. A term used to explain how those in power secure the social submission of those who are not in power is called hegemony.
The fabric of oppression is summed up with a diagram that looks like a cage, with those in power at the top, and those targeted at the bottom, no matter what, somehow you end up in the cage and are placed into a certain category, most people would end up either 50-50 or mostly in the targeted area, showing that once again, like the culture of power, those in power or in the 'in' groups are in retrospect a very small margin, whereas the targeted group is overcrowded.