SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: University Of California, Santa Cruz, White Privilege, Conflict Theories
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Different association used to connect individual characteristic, behaviors, tastes and attitude and to a person"s perceived membership of a group, often on the basis of physical appearance. A social construction that divides humans into different and unique categories on the basis of social, economic and political forces. But we understand race and racism does exist. Human beings actively create social life and meaning. Attributing social constructs to biological or genetic causes (biology=destiny. Ideal that people"s dispositions, attitudes, behaviors, social roles and other personal qualities are determined by their biology. Socio-biological sciences predicted on racist ideologies that promote practices that are supposed to purify" and improve" the genetic pool of a particular population. A dialectical process by which meaning is attributed to particular biological features of human beings, as a result of which individuals may be assigned t a general category of persons which reproduced itself biologically.
