SOCL 2001 : Exam 3
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Race: race is a myth, concept of race is largely socially constructed, race, a group of people who share a set of characteristics typically, but not always physical ones- are said to share a common bloodline. Umbrella group: a large group that covers a bunch of different groups, concept of race has some biological element, but also attached to social characteristics. The enlightenment moved the world toward science and the western definition of race adjusted accordingly: scientific racism describes the theories of race from the 18th century. Theories linked racial differences to scientific (biological) explanations rather than biblical ones: people start measuring the features of different people from different races. You have to have some expectation of how the other is going to respond. The group outside of the dominant group. (i. e. , African. : phrenology was the science of head bumps.
