SOC 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Urban League, Chain Migration, Gie
15 Oct 2016
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Hapter 3 racial and ethnic inequality (test 2-oct25th) Race: race is a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society define as important. Sociologists view racial categories, at best, as misleading and, at worst, as a harmful way to divide humanity. There is more genetic diversity within racial categories than between them. Race: race is a classification system of human beings on the basis of culturally-defined biologically-transmitted group characteristics. Typically, but not invariably, these are connected to visible attributes (skin color, physical characteristics, etc) Racism: racism is a set of beliefs and social practices in which people are treated differently and accorded advantages and disadvantages on the basis of culturally-defined racial classifications. Typically, racism involves linking evaluative judgments to these classifications-superior/inferior, worthy/unworthy, dangerous/harmless, honest/dishonest: social mix. Mixture of different income groups and racial groups. It is unidirectional: theories of race and racism.
