SOC 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Panic, Individualism, Neoliberalism
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Democratic racism an ideology in which two conflicting sets of values are made congruent to each other. Commitments to democratic principles such as justice, equality, and fairness conflict but coexist with attitudes and behaviors that include negative feelings about minority groups, differential treatment, and discrimination against them. Democratic racism is manifested in the daily lives of people through many different discourses. Main principle assumption that racism simply doesn"t exist in a democratic society. The assumption that because canada is a society that upholds the ideals of liberal democracy, racism couldn"t exist here. When racism does exist, it tends to be identified as an isolated phenomenon relating to a limited number of social deviants, economic instability, or the consequence of undemocratic traditions that are disappearing from the canadian scene. Not talking about certain issues as they may offend political sensibilities. Represents an expression of their resistance to forms of social change.