SOCI 230 Lecture : Lecture Notes.docx
30 Jun 2013
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What is race: skin colour, family origin, geography. 1/11/2013 1:27:00 pm: socially constructed tool used for categorization, genetic similarities. What informed your ideas about race: the notion of racism, history, parents we learn about our own group membership. Sociological definition of race: a group of human beings socially defined by itself or others as distinct on the basis of common physical (and increasingly, cultural) characteristics that are held to be inherent. Race as a biological difference: types of mankind photo popularized theory of polygenesis (belief that different races of humans categorize different species) Shows that most superior species are white humans. This idea prevailed until first half of the 20th century. Modern humans share 99. 9% of genetic code. Nearly all the genetic variation found in asians and europeans are found in africans: 1 million years ago, homo-sapiens (ancestor of modern humans) left.
