ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stephen Jay Gould, Franz Boas, Scientific Racism
30 Mar 2019
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Scientific racism: great chain of being, racisms. Internalized racism: caste, class, ascribed status, achieved status, agency versus structure. Origins of racial thinking: closely linked to colonialism and slavery, the "great chain f being" Ideology of inequality rationalized european treatment of other peoples; was turned into "race"; science began to back up ideology: around 1800, began with three groups of people who came into contact within each other for the first time. Samuel morton - craniometry (measuring skull shape and size) and intelligence. Stephen jay gould - debunked morton"s work (so did franz boas) In social sciences: racialized culture of poverty theory. Race: summary remarks: race is not a biological category, but it is an important social category, race may not exist, but racism does, racial worldview has created inequality, not the other way around. Social stratification is the ordering and ranking of individuals (and groups) within society.
