SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Aryan Nations, Authoritarian Personality, Japanese Canadians
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Race: myth and reality: race: a group with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group. Common sense vs. sociology: our racial classifications represent biological differences between people, what (cid:449)e (cid:272)all (cid:862)(cid:396)a(cid:272)es(cid:863) a(cid:396)e a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) so(cid:272)ial st(cid:396)atifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374)s, modern geneticists conclude that there is only one racial category of humans . Racial superiority: w. i thomas observed what people believe affects social life, for people act on beliefs, not facts, as a result, the ideas of race that are embedded in culture influence. Jews are more considered an ethnic group than a race: ethnic work is the way people construct their identity how they enhance and (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374) thei(cid:396) g(cid:396)oup"s disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, attempts to recover ethnic heritage. We are not born with prejudice, we learn it: kathleen blee interviewed women from the kkk and aryan nations, racism is not the cause of joining groups, but a result of membership.
