SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Human Genome Project, Ethnic Group, Sociobiology
13 May 2016
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Race and ethnicity - chapter 8: definition. Definition: a social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers, usually with profound effects on their lives. Ethnic group: people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant. Ethnic groups differ from one another in terms of language, religion, customs, values etc. A century ago, scientists believed in distinct racial groups, based on skin colour, hair type, body shape. White, black, red, yellow, brown and various mixed races". By the 1940s, scientists were starting to More than 99 percent of the human race is identical across different racial groups . Homo sapiens are a single species, with immense variation within the species. Race us a social construction, neither and ascribed or an achieved characteristic , but rather a status acquired by definition . Objective: ethnic groups have distinct languages and cultures/ customs; unchanging.
