SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Ingroups And Outgroups
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Race: a socially constructed concept categorizing humans according to their physical and biological characteristics. These characteristics may be real or presumed. How society categorizes races varies historically and cross-culturally. These definitions are often influenced by social and historical ideas about what is important. Current genetic research does not support our social constructs (templeton 2013) The physical characteristics we use are not significant enough to create racial categories. Side note: the same study did find that race existed among chimpanzees. Includes those of europeans, middle eastern, north african, and some of. Includes those with far eastern, southeast asian, indian subcontinental descent. Ethnicity: the cultural values and norms that distinguish the members of a given group from others. Ethnic groups often have a sense of shared origins and relatively clear boundaries. While hispanic status is considered to be an ethnicity, most hispanics consider it to be a racial characteristics.
