Whats the difference between social and institutional discrimination?

Institutional discrimination is apartheid. This means that the government makes it legal to discriminate people of any ethnicity, religion, creed, etc... Some good examples are the Jim Crow Laws, Chinese Exclusionary Act, and the apartheid that occurred in South Africa. Social discrimination is a group of people's stereotype and discrimination towards a certain group of people. Usually, social discrimination is a product of people's generalization of an ethnicity, and can sometimes be the cause of enforced institutional discrimination. Example: Chinese and Japanese were trying to become legal citizens of the US based on the fact that they looked white (had white skin). The supreme court ruled that they could not be white because being white was in the eyes of the common people, and in the eyes of the common people, Asians were not white. White people got their information about Asian culture from popular media, like comic books and novels, and those popular medias were actually stereotypes of Asian people.