SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Structural Functionalism, Ethnocentrism, Human Genome Project
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Usually used to describe level of economic wealth. Although sometimes it is cultural (high/low class) 2 ways of describing class: durkheimian, different levels of wealth along with a continuum b. Inequalities were natural: marxian, two distinct categories, class is one"s relationship to the means of production" c. Inequalities were based on exploitation and subjugation i. ii. Exists between, within countries and across countries. In many ways, class, gender, and race all represent arbitrary categorizations along a continuum. F=50 and below; d= 50-60; c=60-70;b=70-80; a= 80-90; a+ = 90-100. Are you in the same grade class as someone with an 80%;71% So are classes, races, ethnicities even genders. Both are socially constructed categories arbitrarily dividing humans along a continuum. Some say races: all derived from negroid ( black"); caucasoid ( white"); But: the human genome project has shown only 15% of genetic variation to occur between races (85% within races") There could be more genetic difference between two randomly selected.
