SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Legal Drinking Age, Chinese Filipino, Indian Chinese Cuisine
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The term race may come from the: Czech word: raz (means artery or blood ) Spanish word: ras (means head or origin ) Sociologists view race as a social construction/social category. Some examples of social construction or social categories in the us: Race: categories of people that are set apart from others because of socially defined physical characteristics. The idea that race is biological is questionable (or not meaningful) because: In old missouri, if a person possessed or more negro, that person was classified as non-white. In louisiana (1930s), if a person possessed 1/32 or more black blood, that person was classified as black. Traditionally, the u. s. recognized three racial groups: Sociologists do not see race from a biological standpoint; we see it from a social standpoint. You cannot prove or disprove someone is asian. College of job applications sometimes have different numbers of racial categories. Her relatives in china used to see her as american .
