More Key Concepts
Racism: a) Individual: belief that one’s own race is superior to another (racial prejudice) and behavior that suppresses members of the so-called inferior race (racial discrimination). B) institutional: those established laws, customs and practices which systematically reflect and produce racial inequalities in American society…whether or not the individuals maintaining those practices have racist intentions. C) Cultural: Belief in the inferiority of the implements, handicrafts, agriculture, economics, music, art, religious beliefs, traditions, language and story of non-Anglo European peoples, and the belief that these people have no distinctive culture.
Culture:
- “That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”. (Taylor, 1871)
- “A shared organization of ideas that includes the intellectual, moral, and aesthetic standards prevalent in a community and the meanings of communicative actions” (LeVine, 1986).
- “World view (Triandis, 1975)
- System of shared knowledge and belief that shapes human perceptions and generates social behavior.