SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Dissonance, Ethnocentrism, Sociological Perspectives
2 Feb 2017
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People look remarkably different; people believe that these outward features (hair, eyes, skin colour) are linked to internal differences, like cognitive, language, creativity, and athletic differences, but these internal characteristics are present in all racial groups. The notion of race is social, not biological; all races share the same genome and there is no evidence supporting the concept of race. Any two unrelated individuals share 99. 9% of their genomes, and the vast majority of the. 0. 1% difference is in non-coding regions of the genome (which are not coded for any specific function) Dna variation is greater within a given group (than compared to different races) Race changes across time and place -> what counts as being (cid:498)black(cid:499) in the u. s. can differ from what is (cid:498)black(cid:499) in australia, )ndia, or africa. Ethnic group: a collection of people distinguished, by others or by themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics: ethnic groups share five main characteristics:
