SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Scientific Racism, Social Evolution, Racialization
23 Nov 2016
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Race is not biologically meaningful not to say that race and racial politics are not. Social scientists greatly talk about racialization one way of defining that is the process in which people are viewed as essentially different because of differences of outward physical appearance. Race = product of socio-historical not scientific processes. We will look at the history of the concept. Genetists/anthropologists argue that differences are really the result of early environmental adaptation (lifestyle, climates, etc) If you go back to earlier historical times, initially no or little gentic contact which allows certain traits to develop. We have to understand what the political scientific context under which race began to be seen and understood as sort of this essential meaningful biological category through which you could subdivide people according to their outward physical experience. Carl von line came up with the classification of four kinds of human species.
