SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Northern Italy, Caucasian Race, Social Inequality
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There is an assumption that race and ethnicity are ascribed characteristics. We assume that we are born with a certain race or ethnicity that cannot be changed. It is more useful to see these terms as achieved statuses statuses that acquired by virtue of social definition. Objective definitions of ethnicity assume that ethnic groups exist because of people"s social attachments. Ethnicity is something that people possess because of differences in language, culture, customs, national origin, and ancestry. Subjective approaches to ethnicity focus on the process of ethnic identification. Most scientists believed that races were real and objective subdivisions of. Thomas if people define situations as real, they are in their consequences. Both a certain kind of idea and a certain kind of institutional practice. Traditionally, racism was the belief that humans are subdivided into distinct hereditary groups that are innately different in their social behaviour and mental capacities and that can therefore be ranked as superior or inferior .
