SOSC 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Visible Minority, Hysterectomy, Scientific Racism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Annette Bickford

Document Summary

Enforces racist and imperialist relations which oppress them and limit their economic and social power as race is attached to class and material opportunity. Desirable heritable characteristics and prevent degeneration superior, in order to prove natural inferiority of the other. positive eugenics refers to motivation and incentives given to groups with desirable. Defective genes from being passed on as they will make the child. Disadvantaged almost from the moment of conception. : fitness contests awarded the fittest white families, iq tests tailored and developed for white middle class men. Questions: relevance: eugenics is an example of scientific racism. Revolution, everyone was born equal unless you can prove natural inferiority. Scientists therefore tailored things such as iq tests to make them appear: black women were forced to be put on norplant in order for them to be eligible for welfare (negative). Sterilization was done to prevent traits to encourage them to reproduce.