SOC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Racial Profiling, Visible Minority, Institutional Racism
29 Mar 2017
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Lecture 8: chapter 11 race and ethnicity. A category of people who have been singled out as a socially different, often on the basis of inherited physical characteristics such as skin colour, hair texture, and eye shape (newman 1995) A collection of people who, as a result of their shared cultural traits and a high level of interaction, regard themselves and regarded as a cultural unit. Share distinct geographical area on the planet. We differ in terms of skin color, hair type, eye shape. People believe that these outward features are linked to internal differences, like cognitive and language and creativity and athletic differences. But these internal characteristics are present in all racial groups. The notion of race is social not biological. Race changes across time and place: what counts has being black in the us doesn"t track what is black in australia, india, or africa. Is there genetic evidence supporting the concept of race.
