SOCI 230- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 116 pages long!)
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99. 9% of genetic material is shared by all "races" Ethnicity - markers of ethnicity constantly constructed and reconstructed. Concepts continue to be socially relevant in most societies. Real consequences for individual life chances & group stratification. Submit 1 response (choice of 2 questions) A race is a group of human beings socially defined by itself or others as distinct on the basis of common physical characteristics. A time when people thought of races as different species of human beings. Today race is a socially constructed phenomenon. 1 million years ago - homo sapiens (modern human beings) migrated out of africa. 32,000 years ago, neanderthals became extinct; homo sapiens sole hominid species on earth. Geological time too short for modern humans to have evolved into different species, races Dna evidence: modern humans share 99. 9% of genetic code. First written historical documentation of the word race: 1508, the dance of the sevin deidly sins (william dunbar)
