SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Thomas Theorem
26 Feb 2014
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Racism is a combo of both discrimination and prejudice. Prejudice refers to the thought process generalized unfavorable thoughts. Discrimination is the action actual practice of denying equality to different groups. Next exam variety of scenarios of racism, define what type of racism this is. Lucius outlaw ( toward a critical theory of race ) We need to examine the career of the term race . It is unclear whether the term derives from arabic, latin, or german source. First (recorded) use in english by william dunbar in 1508 in a poem. It initially was used to denote a class of persons or things. Darwin suggested that people possessed genetic material and were not able to adjust to their environment (or not). Gregor mendel"s research research revealed that biological traits were passed on, but not as package deals, instead shuffled like a pack of playing cards. With greater knowledge of human bio, the concept of race became increasinglt suspect.
