SOCI 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Forces, Racialization
18 Jul 2016
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Race a social relational category that may be defined by socially selected physical characteristics . Ethnicity is defined more in terms of socially selected cultural characteristics. Race first emerged as a legal category in section 8 of the immigration act of 1910 later amended to include nationality . This was the section that created the undesirable category. In 1952, the category race was changed to ethnic group in the immigration act. As biological entities, races do not exist. Race is socially constructed because: a) humans rather abstract social forces produce races b) races are constructed relationally, against one another, rather than in isolation. Ideology beliefs, perceptions, assumptions, values about the world, ourselves, and everybody else. A way of organizing the world (could be religious, scientific etc. ) Can be on the basis of social behaviour.
