SOC100 Lecture : Race And Racialization
22 Dec 2011
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Racism y an ideology that maintains that one race is inherently superior to another y defining others as inferior allows the majority group to reinforce its own collective identity and sense of superiority. Democratic racism y a system that advocates equality but in fact perpetuates minority differentiation and oppression y stereotypes and racism are the result of social processes. Discrimination y occurs when a person or group with either denies or grants advantages to members of a particular group (individual, direct institutional or indirect institutional) Indirect institutional discrimination occurs when an action produces uneven results on a group or person because of an unlawful criterion but lacks the intent of being discriminatory y y. The relationship between prejudice and discrimination merton s typology. Psychological theories y scapegoat theory (dollard) prejudice and discrimination originate in the frustrations of people who want to blame someone else for their problems.
