SOSC 4240 Lecture : Race and Ethnicity.docx
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These people tend to be more creative. Consider greater importance for sociology than in biology. Some scientists believe we all belong to one race and this is in africa. Some people think we all come from one mother named lucy who is from africa. Race and ethnicity (no marginality and creativity on the final) Marginalized individuals are socialized (primary) by one culture and then later by another culture (secondary) Race and ethnicity often focus on inequality resources are divided along the lines of race and ethnicity. Some people think that race and ethnicity are ascribed you"re born with it and can"t change it. Sociology says race and ethnicity are socially constructed. Some people think of race in connection with skin colour terrible misue. The caucassion race white people or people of european background. Some people label jewish people as a race but they are an ethnic group. Not the way sociologists or biologists use the term race.
