SOCI 230 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, White People, Racism
20 Nov 2018
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Skin colour, social categorizations, hair texture, mannerisms/social norms, facial features. Race: a group of human beings socially defined by itself or others as distinct on the basis of common physical (and increasingly, cultural) characteristics that are held to be inherent (cornell & hartmann 1998) Types of mankind, 19th century: a book published to showcase and popularize the polygenesis thesis - where whites > others in evolution, and that other races were more similar to monkeys in terms of intelligence/physical standard. Archaeological discoveries, dna technology, etc. have shown that all species came from homo sapiens from africa around 1 million years ago. 32,000 years ago, homo sapiens became the only human species on earth when they beat out the neanderthals. Not enough time has passed for humans to develop into several different species. Evidenced by the fact that we share 99. 5-99. 9% of genetic code. 16th century: race as lineage among races.
