ANTHRO 128B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Darwinism, Social Inequality, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 128B
• Professor: Angela C Jenks

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Anthro 128b race, gender, science -- lecture 18 . +variation is important and that we understand it. ~does not mean that humans are all biologically the same or that biology is irrelevant. +there are patterns in human variation and we share more variation with people. +no we should not get rid of race and that all people are equal. +just because it is social/cultural, it does not mean it is imaginary. +social does not mean it is not real and not need to focus on it. ~does not mean that race and gender are not important. ~does not mean race and gender are subject to individual manipulation. We have challenged conventional ideas about the biology of race & gender. Social construction of race/gender are closer choose your constructed differently (cid:862)nature (cid:448)s. nurture(cid:863) Fra(cid:374)(cid:272)is galto(cid:374) (cid:894)1(cid:1012)(cid:1011)4(cid:895): (cid:862)(cid:374)ature is all that a (cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)ri(cid:374)gs (cid:449)ith hi(cid:373) i(cid:374)to the (cid:449)orld; (cid:374)uture is e(cid:448)er(cid:455) i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e that affe(cid:272)ts hi(cid:373) after (cid:271)irth(cid:863)