SOCA01H3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
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Social construction of race: perceptions of racial difference are socially constructed and often arbirtrary, some people think race and ethnicity is ascribed, sociology shows that r&e is socially constructed, greater importance for sociology and social forces than biology. Japan has a lot of biological similarity because it has been isolated from the larger society: the japanese are not a race, biologically speaking www. notesolution. com, migration leads to intermixing, emigration-leaving, immigration-entering. ^ can be voluntary and involuntary: in apartheid situation certain groups must live in certain areas (involuntary) ^ they can be misleading: a group in sociology, refers to a group of people trying to work on a specific task, majority and minority imply numbers www. notesolution. com. In south africa there are more blacks than white, yet blacks are called minority: minority traits are subordinate segments of the population, minority traits usually marry within their group, endogamy, visible minorities.
