SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Inequality

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Iq scores are remarkably flexible the average iq of members of racial groups have nothing to do with biology. Racial mixing it is impossible to neatly distinguish races based on genetic differences because a high level of genetic mixing has taken place some biologists suggest we drop the term race from science vocab. Jews during holocaust: movie example district 9 shows we have created many systems of ethnic and racial stratification that allow us to treat other people little better than aliens are treated. Ethnicity, culture, and social structure race is to biology as ethnicity is to culture ethnic group: comprises people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant. Ethnic groups differ from one another in terms of language, religion, customs, values, ancestors, and the like ethnic values don"t affect behaviour that much because social structural differences frequently underlie cultural differences ex.