SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rickets, Hemoglobin, Melanin
11 Feb 2015
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Race: a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior, often on the basis of real or alleged physical characteristics, such as skin colour, hair texture, eye shape, or other subjectively selected attributes. Ethnic group: a collection of people distinguished, by others or themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics. Characteristics: unique cultural traits (clothing, music, religion, a sense of community, a feeling of ethnocentrism, ascribed membership from birth, territoriality. The word race from the old french rasse", from italian razza" and latin generatio" (meaning to beget. Original work in 1775, published again in 1795. Considered one of the most influential works in the development of subsequent concepts of human races. Humanity had five races: caucasian race, mongolian race, ethiopian race, american race, malay race. In 1842, swedish anatomist gave the cephalic index (define = maximum head breadth x length, x by 100 = your index)
