SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aryan Race, Social Darwinism, Samuel George Morton
27 Jan 2017
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Races make divisions that don(cid:495)t need to be there, but they are also important because of the ways that. Immigration act of 1924 -> limited the number of immigrants that were allowed to enter the us. British colonial people are the first to document/classify races. Social darwinism: based on the assumption that conflict within groups in societies leads to. Holocaust complications as superior groups lead inferior groups: (cid:498)survival of the best adapted(cid:499) throwbacks and performed mass sterilization to (cid:498)eliminate(cid:499) these bad genes (cid:494)eliminated(cid:495) those without these features in order to get rid of the (cid:494)bad genes(cid:495) (itler(cid:495)s intention was to eliminate bad genes by limiting reproduction. Racism is not just someone(cid:495)s thoughts about another person; it becomes extremely problematic in systemic situations when personal thoughts influence one(cid:495)s actions.
