Microaggressions is “everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.” Microaggressions can be based on economic status, disability, gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Racial and gender are the 2 most common types of microaggression used today. For example, Assigning intelligence to a person of color on the basis of their race, Which is very common. Asking an Asian person to help with a Math or Science problem indicates that all Asians are intelligent and good in Math / Sciences.
“Micropolitics refers to the negotiations over power in everyday interactions between people.” In other words, it’s the exercise of power in everyday life, Where individuals’ everyday actions and social interactions occur. Like deciding who is going to do housework or use the remote control. It Focuses on patterns of social interaction at the individual level.
“Mesopolitics, mesa meaning middle range, refers to the power exerted by groups within institutions to ensure that individuals follow the institutions’ rules or to challenge those rules.” It’s Where individuals interact within groups. For example schools, communities, neighbourhoods and workplace. It Consists of larger groups that interact directly with the individual. Focuses on relationships between middle-level social structures and the individual.
“Macropolitics refers to laws’, policies’, and culture’s power to enforce social norms.” It’s the exercise of large-scale power, Where we observe the wider social structures, social processes and their interrelationships. For example, social institutions such as media, law, workplace institutions and government. It helps to shape the social and cultural world.Examines how these collective groups relate to the wider society of which they form a part and is evident at national and international level.
