SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Genome Project, Intelligence Quotient, Racialization
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We hear that race does not matter anymore, multicultural country. No biological truth to race, but sociological, political and economic repercussions. Many of the world"s conflicts are centered around race and ethnicity. Mass murder, inequality, slavery, colonialism, holocaust, imperialism, exploiting third- world countries, aboriginal marginalization. No biological truth to races, it is a variation of a single species. A social construct, does not actually exist. Historically and socially constructed, the classification of people for exploitation and expansion. Human genome project: more variation within groups than between them. Lends support of how socially constructed race is, not a natural process. Due to modernization, industrialization, other big changes. Can"t be in this state of competitiveness, unstable. Eventually the subordinate group assimilates to dominant group. People of the same class would come together. But this did not happen, as capitalism grows more people (in other countries) are taken advantage of.
