Members of the Students for Environmental Concerns (SEC) organization submitted a request to university administrators to obtain a permit that would enable them to hold a demonstration on Parents' Weekend. The university agreed to issue the permit but designated that the demonstration can only take place between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. and must be located on the far end of campus, away from the student center. If the SEC wants to demonstrate, it must follow the guidelines. Which of the assumptions of Feminist Standpoint Theory explains social life as experienced by SEC members?

A. When there is a dominant and a subordinate group, the understanding of the dominant group will be both partial and harmful.
B. The potential understanding of the oppressed makes visible the inhumanity of the existing relations among groups and creates a move toward a better, more just world.
C. The vision of the ruling group structures the material relations in which all groups are forced to participate.
D. Material life structures and limits understandings of social relations.


Answer: C

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