HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnocentrism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Elaine Power

Document Summary

Racism is a general term used to describe: Health week five: readings: a belief or doctrine that inherent different among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, a policy, system of government, etc. Based up or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination: hatred or intolerance of another race/races. Race: socially constructed category of identity (based on physical characteristics and geographic origin) which its roots in ideology that situates humans within hierarchy of social value. Culture: historically and geographically bound patterns of shared beliefs, values and behaviour. Ethnicity: refers to groups of people who possess shared culture traits that they characterize as different from those or of other groups. Ethnocentrism: a belief of superiority of one"s own culture or ethnicity. Relational racism: when a person experiences discriminatory behaviour from people he/she encounters in daily life, damaging behaviour (ex.