SOC203 Chapter 8: Race and ethnicity
16 Feb 2017
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The process of organizing people into racialized categories focuses people into groups. Chapter 8: critical studies in race and ethnicity defined by difference and inequality. Race: a category of people who are believed to share distinct physical characteristics that are deemed socially significant. Distinguished on physical characteristics as skin colour, hair texture, facial features, and body shape and size. Racial categories are based more on social definitions than on biological differences. Science of genetics challenges the notion of race. Classifying people into different races fail to recognize that over the course of human history migration and intermarriage have resulted in the blending of genetically transmitted traits. Populations: the word that scientists who reject the race concept now use when referring to groups that most people would call races. Racist ideologies are wrong because they are errors, fuel oppressive and sometimes violent relations between groups, and because as such it damages and distorts the whole of humanity.
