SOC 103 Lecture : SOC 103 Ch.14 - Race and Ethnicity
14 Feb 2012
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Race: a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important. Race allows people to rank people in a hierarchy. Four connotations of race: sub-species of homo sapiens characterized by certain phenotypic and genotypic traits (negroid or. Monogoloid race: group sharing certain cultural characteristics such as language or religion (jewish, french, synonym for species (the human race, human group defining itself and defined by others as different by virtue of innate and immutable physical characteristics. Characteristics in turn believed to be intrinsically related to superiority/inferiority of some groups. As biological entities, races do not exist. It is the process in which people are viewed and judged essentially different in terms of their intellect, their morality, their values, and their worth because of differences if physical type or cultural heritage. Positive attributes also seen in popular culture, white lie, white wedding dress.
