AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Stratification, Scientific Racism, Ethnocentrism
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A broad human population category that allegedly corresponds to distinct, heritable sets of biological attributes and often conflates geographical ancestry and physical type. Has all of the features of social stratification. Early anthropologists supported theories of race and contributed to. : scientific racism science of race using anthropometric techniques (measuring the body, used to classify humans into racial types . Classification of races is selective and arbitrary (skin color as opposed to body shape) No simple correlation between physical differences and behavioral or mental differences. Physical diff. within and between groups exist. Genetic differences responsible for physical differences are few among humans; common genes and variations within a race. Folk concept focusing on heritage regardless of skin tone. Hypo-descent does not explain about physical descent only folk beliefs about it. Brazil-tipo (type): laura very white; branca white; morena tan; mulatta. Darker; pretas dark; physical variations are important. Race does not exist as biological category but .
