Sexism/racism et al. can exist outside of institutions no?
"Hate crimes" for instance clearly do not involve
any recognizable institutions yet clearly involve an -ism of some kind. Nor do -isms only exist at the society level. For instance it would be possible for a female owned company to not hire men (female hiring bias/sexism) which would run counter to larger societal biases.
> "Hate crimes" for instance clearly do not involve any recognizable institutions yet clearly involve an -ism of some kind.
Only in the sense that they 'reproduce' the broader -ism. The individual act is one of discrimination, the sum of all acts collectively is an *-ism.
> For instance it would be possible for a female owned company to not hire men (female hiring bias/sexism) which would run counter to larger societal biases.
Studies and discussion on this topic are scoped specifically at the societal level for a reason.
Which is, again, not sexist or racist at all. *-ism implies institutional bias of a society, not an individual instance of discrimination.
It is _discriminatory_ against men, for sure. But not 'sexist.'