SOC 0829 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: François Bernier, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Louis Wirth
20 Jan 2017
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Issues of race: historical and social roots of the race concept. Early european use: the word race in 16th and early 17th century kinship, late 18th century a distinct category. Put race into categories: immanual kant. Race: physically distinct: considered distinct group. Ethnic group: distinct group: social or cultural characteristics. Majority and minority groups: minority: subordinate, majority: dominant, louis wirth: a group of people who because of their physical or cultural characteristics are singled out from others in society collective discrimination. People cannot be divided into racial groups: according to laws and customs, famously, livingston (1962), a population biologist, concluded, there are no races, there are only clines. Racial traits do not correlate with other types of biological diversity: visible traits that people use to identify race , like skin color, hair texture, or facial characteristic do not correlate with other types of human biological diversity.
