SOC 203 Lecture 6: Soc 203 Race

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 203
• Professor: Silvano Guzzo

Document Summary

We differ in terms of skin color, hair type, eye shape, face shape, stature, etc. (all recently evolved) People believe that these outward features are linked to internal differences, like cognitive and language and creativity and athletic differences. But these internal characteristics are present in all racial groups. The notion of race is social not biological. Race changes across time and place: what counts has being black in the us doesn"t track what is black in australia, india, or africa. Dna variation within a given group (or race) is greater than between groups (or races). The variation within the group called white is greater than the variation within the group called black. For example, individuals from two different groups (or races) will be genetically more similar than any two individuals from the same group. Europeans and africans are more similar to each other genetically than two europeans are, or two africans are .