SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: One-Drop Rule, Symbolic Ethnicity, Scientific Racism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Moore,Dionne Chanele

Document Summary

Race- group of people who share a set of characteristics (usually physical ones) and are said to share a common bloodline. Race is a social construction, set of stories we tell ourselves to organize reality and make sense of the world. Congress passed first naturalization law in 1790- limiting the rights of citizenship to free white persons. Racism- belief that members of separate races possess different unequal traits coupled with the power to restrict freedoms based on those differences. Humans are divided into distinct bloodlines/physical types. Scientific racism- nineteenth century theories of race. Investigation into origins, explanations, and classifications of race. Sought to make sense of people who were different from white europeans. Ethnocentrism- judgment of other groups by one"s own standards and values. Lots of random dudes who did stuff. Race is a set of physical traits that comes with social implications. Ontological equality- philosophical and religious notion that all people were created equal.