CRM 2307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Culture Shock, Indian Act, Peer Pressure

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2307
• Professor: Zoi Coucopoulos

Document Summary

Women"s experience of racism: how race and gender interact: Racism: means attitudes, practices and other factors that disadvantage people because of their face, colour, or ethnicity. Racial discrimination: action based on a person"s race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. that withholds or limits access to benefits available to other members of the dominant group. Systemic/institutional racism: part of the structures of an entire organization"s rules, practices, policies which perpetuate disadvantage or have a negative impact on groups or an individual due to their race, racial origin, sexual orientation, country of origin, etc. Internalized racism: the acceptance of attitudes, beliefs, or ideologies by members of stigmatized ethnic racial groups about inferiority of one"s own ethnic racial group. It is a preconceived negative opinion or attitude about a group of people. Stereotype: set image : when applied to people, refers to forming an instant or fixed picture of a group of people, usually based on false or incomplete information: often negative.