CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: September 11 Attacks, De Jure, Multinational State
25 Nov 2016
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Race and ethnicity: the social meaning of race and ethnicity, a race is a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important. Race is a significant concept chiefly because most people consider it to be such. Biologically speaking, race has less and less meaning in the united states: 362: definitions vary from culture to culture, as does the importance of race. Importance of race often is that it allows a status marker to create/legitimate social hierarchy. Sociologists consider racial types as misleading at best. Over many generations and throughout the americas, the genetic traits from around the world have become mixed. 7 million said they were mixed race in 2000: ethnicity is a shared cultural heritage. Ethnicity involves even more variability and mixture than race because most people identify with more than one ethnic background. Us is a multi-ethnic society, has been for a long time.
