SOC 507 Chapter : soc507 notes.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 507
• Professor: Sal Guzzo

Document Summary

The greatest contribution of greece to the institution of slavery is most likely the theory of natural slavery. Essentially states that slavery is a fact of biology, a natural condition of some people. Medieval muslim philosophers: tainted by religion: ibn sina: believed that some races are slavish by nature, ibn khaldun: writes that: it is mentioned in the torah that noah cursed his son ham. He accepts the idea that slavery was inflicted upon ham s descendants: slavery existed in islam, but enslaving other muslims was not allowed. Only enslaving others was allowed: sharia law permits slavery. 3 billion bases: any two unrelated individuals share 99. 9% of their genomes (identical!, so, only 0. 1% genetic difference between individuals, vast majority of that 0. 1% difference is in non-coding regions of the genome. 98. 6% genetically identical with this african ape: it has been estimated that differences in only about 50 genes separate them from us.