ITM 703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Relativism, Reductionism, Reverse Discrimination

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 703
• Professor: Farid Shirazi

Document Summary

Lec 5 (feb 22) - ict & immigration. In order to understand diversity and its relation to immigration, we need an approach that recognizes its complexity and multiple orientations. We also need to reflect upon the strategies for change from the perspectives of diversity. Essentialism: a belief in unchanging ongoing essences of phenomena, systems of stratification are viewed as fixed, human behaviour is natural by genetic, biological, and/or physical settings. Complexity: this view reduces the causes of a particular social phenomenon to a, it demands the investigation of a host of possibly relevant influences to explain a phenomenon at hand (immigration) Reluctance to help other people to improve their position in society. Tokenism refers to relatively small/partial/trivial positive acts towards members of a minority group. Reverse discrimination: people with prejudice attitudes may sometimes go out of their way to favour members of a group against which they are prejudiced more than members of other groups.