AED 408 Lecture Notes - Ethnic Group, Social Inequality, Intersectionality
1 Dec 2022
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It is not the biological characteristics per say that define racial groups, but how groups have been treated historically and socially. In everyday human interaction, race still matters and matters a lot: there is no such thing as race. This is just a human race- scientifically, anthropologically. The social construction of race: along with gender and social class, race has fundamental importance in human social interaction, and it isn"t integral part of social institutions, race is primarily a socially constructed category. J categories used to divide groups into races are not fixed: they vary from society to society, they vary at different times in the history of a given society, racial identification depends on when and where you live. Ethnicity: remember, in the us they only recognize one ethnicity- hispanic. Ethnicity refers to common culture, race refers in large part, to biological characteristics.
