Discrimination is a negative action or behavior toward an individual as a result of their membership in a particular group. It often arises when people act on their negative beliefs (stereotypes) and negative attitudes (prejudice), leading to the poor treatment of the target group as a form of oppression.

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

The tendency toward prejudice can be reduced through education, contact, interactions, and building relationships with members of different cultural groups. Even imagining positive social interactions with someone from a different group can increase positive attitudes and traits associated with the other group, while reducing anxiety associated with inter-group interactions.

Reducing Prejudice through Inter-group Interactions

An example of prejudice is having a negative attitude toward people who were not born in the same country. Although the prejudiced individual does not know all foreigners personally, they hold a dislike for them solely based on their status as foreigners.

Example of Prejudice: Negative Attitudes toward Foreigners

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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