CGS SS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter SS 101 Social Stratification : Arthur De Gobineau

• School: Boston University
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: CGS SS 101
• Professor: Scott Marr

Document Summary

* race depends on our collective acceptance and agreement that certain physical characteristics are a meaningful and legitimate basis for creating group identities. Physical characteristics not used to construct racial identities. * physical differences are extended into social and culture differences. * in this way, racial identity can be about what you do as much as it can be about how you look. * there is no biological or genetic way to define a race. * arthur de gobineau identifies three races: white, yellow, black. * the races differ in intelligence, beauty, creativity, morality and willpower. * science as an ideology: due to scientific rascim in the 19th century, racial inequality could be scientifically legitimized and justifited. * provided a justification for paternalism- whites to care for non white people. * racial ideologies try to make social and economic inequality between human beings. * racial categories have always been defined by the dominant group.