SOCI 230 Lecture 3: SOCI230L3
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Process by which negative racial significance is attached to groups of people or their activities or, alternatively, social significance is assigned to perceived physical/cultural difference. Seen to be immutable to group over time. Not about calling particular group a racial category, it is about assigning specific significance to that group. Artificially sustaining lives of unfit whites (ie. poor) Not all white europeans that are targeted, but lower class. Founding father: sir francis galton in (1883; cousin of charles darwin) Social intervention to control mating/ reproduction in order to. Improve desirable characteristics: weed out undesirable genes. Application of social darwinism and eugenics in europe. Other populations targeted by nazis: communists (socialists, union leaders), jehovah"s witnesses, roma, etc. Aimed at immigrants (e/s europe), mentally handicap, deaf, blind, epileptic + physically deformed. Criminals sterilized (in prison: war against the weak: eugenics in the usa. Allowed for set up of sterilization board (recommend individuals to be sterilized)
