SOCIOL 2E06 Chapter 1: Topic 1 - Theorizing Defining Race and Ethnicity
9 Jan 2016
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Sociology 2e06 racial and ethnic group relations. Chapters 1-3 from r&r, chapter 2 from the course pack. When we speak of race we mean a group of people that have certain bodily and perhaps also mental characteristics in common. Racial heredity implies that there must be a unity of descent, that there must have existed at one time a small number of ancestors of definite bodily form, from whom the present population has descended. Every racial group consists of a great many family lines which are distinct in bodily form. In varying environment human forms are not absolutely stable, and many of the anatomical traits of the body are subject to a limited amount of change according to climate and conditions of life. On the whole it is much easier to find decided differences between within the original population races in bodily form than in function.
