This paper aims to determine the causes of racism and discrimination through a psychosocial perspective, demonstrating the cultural roots of prejudiced manifestations and its origins in the myth of the scapegoat. The objective is, thus, to show our almost complete immersion in the dominant ideology, dealing mainly with the concepts of social imaginary, ideology, hegemony and authority and its historical construction. An anti-authoritarian point of view is placed. Through it, Psychology's challenge in getting rid of its manacles, imposed by the dominant ideology, that hinders it from being a science not involved with the dominant classes.
Racism; ideology; autorithy; social imaginary