Societal prejudice being utilized either formally through law or informally through societal custom in order to create an unjustified distinction between two groups. Often this materializes in restriction of access to societal institutions or privileges available to others.

Discrimination

Prejudice common enough in a group that its consequences take place on a more or less uniform societal level. Typically these views are informed by a society's culture.

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A preconceived notion, often negative, held by an individual or group against another individual or group. Typically prejudice is held against a group due to one or more immutable characteristics, activities, or beliefs that characterize that group.

Prejudice

A collection of human behaviors and social norms that connect a group of people. These norms can include shared art, law, and beliefs, as well as other mutual commonalities.

Culture as a Sociological Issue

Wikipedia: Prejudice

Societal Prejudice 

Certain information, that is often implicit, regarding how things work within a specific culture. From our expectations of how a bride should dress for their wedding or what one should eat for breakfast, cultural knowledge networks help us determine what is expected to come next in a situation. 

Cultural Knowledge Networks

Connected child nodes contain references for culture.

References for Culture

A theory which states that there are different levels of the effect of culture. Those levels are the universal level, the societal level, the situational level, and the individual level.

Culture-as-Situated-Cognition (CSC) Theory

A smaller subgroup developed from an original culture that are unified by a set of traits that simultaneously differentiate them from the original cultural group.

Subculture

Cultural competence in mental health refers to a therapist's ability to effectively work with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. With a growing number of ethnically diverse individuals, it is crucial for mental health professionals to develop the knowledge and skills to address issues related to a patient's race, culture, and ethnicity. This involves approaching the therapeutic process from the context of each client's unique culture, as standard Eurocentric approaches may not be universally effective.

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