SOC 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Constructionism
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Ethnicity: belief in shared common descent, based on perceived cultural similarities. Think of europe in different cultures ie italian, french, etc. Race: belief in shared common descent, based on perceived innate or physical similarities. Based on social ideas rather than on biological distinctions. Genetic variations is greater within than between groups. Idea of racial hierarchies promoted by european explorers. Social constructionist: based in human ideas about difference. An objective basis for race that would eliminate variation across societies and across time. A sharp dividing line that distinguishes characteristics of different groups and a plan for categorizing mixed race offspring. Spoke about the background of between the world and me . Essentialist ideas and social constructionist ideas in passage shared. Essentialist: mistreating people based on race and used race to justify this action, trail of tears was treated like tornados (an act of god)
