PSY 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Employment Discrimination, Ethnocentrism, Group Cohesiveness
15 Dec 2015
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Goes directly against cp principles: personal racism. Laws and policies that discriminate: ethnocentrism or cultural racism. Defaulting own culture as the norm and main culture and using it to judge other cultures. Not to be ignored: employment discrimination. Cannot get the same job they used to have. All they achieved is not worth anything: disadvantaged, slow integration (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Decreased from 2009: but this is only from reported hate crimes, many people are reluctant to report. Motivation: mainly due to race and ethnicity. Microaggressions (day to day derogatory acts: microassult. Happen to sexism and heterosexism (cid:1) (cid:1) On fox news: they question people and their religion. Bill 60: promote neutrality and equality between women and men, religious neutrality, restricts use of religious symbols. Goal: social cohesion and integration, protect quebec"s cultural heritage. European ethnocentrism: north american ethnocentrism, aboriginals were seen as inferior, being white makes you superior.
