SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Biological Determinism, Institutional Racism
16 Jun 2018
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Sociology 101
10/23/2017
Lecture 18
stats - 2010 census
- white - 76.9%
- black- 13.3%
- american indian- 1.3%
- asian - 5.7%
- native hawaiian- 0.2%
- biracial/multiracial- 2.6%
- hispanic/latinx- 17.8%
Percentage of US Population
- White: 60% - class response
- Black/African American: 30% - class response
- American Indian and Alaska native: 5% - class response
- Asian: 10% - class response
- Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander: 5% - class response
- Biracial/multiracial: 40% - class response
- hispanic/latinx - 25% - class response
Is race a biological reality?
- Biological determinism
- assuming that social and economic differences b/w races are result of inborn
distinctions
- biological determinism not supported by any valid and reliable scientific data
- biological determinism has historically been used to justify socially created racial
inequality
- Genetics
- we share 99.9% of same genes w/ other people
- more genetic variation within racial group that b/w them
- racial difference does not exist on genetic level
- Race and ethnicity: definitions
- Race
- symbolic category, based on phenotype or ancestry and constructed
according to specific social and historical contexts, that is misrecognized
as a natural category
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Document Summary
American indian and alaska native: 5% - class response. Native hawaiian and other pacific islander: 5% - class response. Assuming that social and economic differences b/w races are result of inborn distinctions. Biological determinism not supported by any valid and reliable scientific data. Biological determinism has historically been used to justify socially created racial inequality. We share 99. 9% of same genes w/ other people. More genetic variation within racial group that b/w them racial difference does not exist on genetic level. Race symbolic category, based on phenotype or ancestry and constructed according to specific social and historical contexts, that is misrecognized as a natural category. Ethnicity shared identity by culture, historical, religious and or/ national affiliations. Notions of racial difference are human creations rather than eternal, essential categories. We learn what race is and meanings attached to race through agents of socialization race is not static, impacted by context and time.
