Question

How does individual discrimination differ from institutional discrimination? Explain (20 points ).

Answer 1

Discrimination is an act of separating or isolation of certain thing .It can be an individual or an institution.

Individual discrimination refers to discrimination against a single person on the grounds of their race,ethnicity, culture, background, socioeconomic status,illiterate, minority groups, pregnancy in job offers .The most common example of segregation or discrimination faced by black peoples. They were once treated as slaves and were forcibly subjected to slavery by whites and the ruling party of a country.There are many examples which can be said like in workplace in healthcare sector the blacks, racism discriminated patient from getting services from the healthcare professionals

Institutional discrimination refers to the discrimination done on certain groups of people or a community or a society.The most common example is the Civil rights movement,restaurants discriminating blacks when offering job.Institutional discrimination may always need a greater reform by a large group to fight for their rights in the society but once a law is formulated it cannot be easily altered.The main reason is single or one policy for the entire group of community.