SOC 019 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 019
• Professor: Matsumoto

Document Summary

Minorities tend to concentrate in regions of the west coast, east coast, and south. Big cities also have larger minority populations for reasons such as employment. It is nothing to do with biological makeup. There are no genetic markers that define race. 85% of genetic variation comes from individuals within a population. Meanings, assumptions, and laws are tied to race. The modern concept of race was modeled after an ancient theorom of the great. Race was a mode of classification linked specifically to peoples in the colonial situation.