SOSC 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Power (Social And Political), Scientific Racism, Social Darwinism
25 Apr 2013
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Social darwinism and the european colonial project - racism: emerged from. 19th century imperialism and the scientific biases of the times. Race is a category used to hierarchically organize people on the basis of biological and physiological characteristics, especially skin colour. The human propensity for classification and organization creates hierarchies of inferiority and superiority us and them, others . Tribalism classifying other people as in-group or out-group members. Strong feelings of belonging to a group is part of our human nature as social beings . Race is physiologically defined / ethnicity is culturally defined. Race and ethnic relations also often relates to how power and resources are unequally distributed among cultural or racialized groups. Racism is also the fear of difference, a hatred of others"- based on the dehumanization or inferiority of the other. Racism as an ideology that justifies certain social practices such as daily discrimination, slavery, punishment, social exclusion, poverty, genocide and war.
