SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Institutional Racism, Eurocentrism, Margaret Mead
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Refers to how all communities, both minority and dominant, measure all other communities and cultures against the norms, beliefs, values and ways of being of their own community. One if practicing ethnocentrism if one considers that the practices, values, and beliefs of their own community constitute the one right way of doing things. Ethnocentric use their group as the standard for evaluating others. Refers to the belief that western values, beliefs, and ways of being and doing are superior to those of all other communities. Prejudice - refers to an attitude held by an individual. Often referring to its systematic and institutional forms. Systematic racism - process that are built into the structures of our society. Institutional racism, - refers to discriminatory practices and policies that are built into the institutions of our society that either directly or indirectly, consult or unknowingly, promote and reproduce differential privilege for people of the dominant race.
