SOCI 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Extreme Ways, Caucasian Race, Visible Minority
10 Sep 2018
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Race that members of a society consider important. A race is a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits. Physical diversity appeared among our human ancestors as the result of living in different. Every population has some genetic mixture, and increasing contact among the world"s people. Typically, canadians see fewer racial ensures even more blending of physical characteristics in the future. geographic regions of the world. categories. To allow for a range of self-definitions, the canadian census allows people to describe themselves using any number of racial or ethnic terms. Scientists invented the concept of race in the nineteenth century as they tried to organize the. They called people with relatively light skin and fine hair caucasoid, people with darker skin and coarse hair negroid, and people with yellow or brown skin and distinctive folds on the eyelids mongoloid. The three racial categories differ in only 6 percent of their genes, less than the.
