PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Copyright Collective, Reductionism, Psych
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Lecture 6: how structures of identity interact with world of mental illness, race as construct. We use phenotypic feats we take a couple of traits and give them much more money than they actually have. We operate as if race describes these meaningful categories of differences biologically speaking, it"s worthless unless you"re only talking about skin pigment or eye shape. We act like race is an essential characteristic of human beings. We see just as much variation within racial groupings as there is between them. Implies crystallization of races, like there is a prototype individual. But that never happened bc humans have always been mingling. What it means to belong in a racial group changes dramatically across time and place: not something that can be meaningfully measured, is ascribed to us. Categorization that is constantly evolving to put us in a place. Something we can identify with, but is primarily assigned to us. Race is still a phenomenally powerful construct.
