SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kobe Bryant, Samuel George Morton, Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism
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Essentially there isn"t any deviance in any one (no one is born with it) Sociologists don"t see race & ethnicity as natural and inevitable but social. Power & inequality is the key to racialization. Samuel george morton (distinguished scientist in the us) Was convinced that race and intelligence were correlated. Measured skull size of different races; the bigger the skull the smarter" the person. Took skulls from many races, then filled them up with marbles to measure the volume. Concluded that whites have the largest brain (therefore smartest), then asians, aboriginals and then blacks. When people looked closer at data of the black skulls, apparently he looked at 71% black female skulls, while only look at 48% white female skulls. This means that the variation between intelligence could have been due to gender differences than race differences. In recent studies, white women have larger skulls than black women, but white men have smaller skulls than black men.
