SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iberian Peninsula, Symbolic Interactionism, Conflict Theories
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Race: a social construct used to distinguish markers, usually with profound effects on their people in terms of one or more physical lives. (brym and lie 2014: 141) Social construct: an idea or concept that has emerged from society. Refers to physical markers, ie. skin colour, eye shape, eye colour. Social construct a product of society. Race is an idea that has grown out of society. How perceived differences can shape opportunities and life experiences differently, unequal relations and opportunities. Based off of race and ethnicity, inequality. Race can be how we see other people and how we categorize other people. Sociologists, historians, biologists, geneticists: race is a social construct. There is no biological component to what we think of as race. Race is an idea we ascribe to biology . See: race: the power of an illusion series. When we identify physical differences, its very often that people think that means something about the genetics of the individual.
