SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Authoritarian Personality, Conflict Theories, Culture Theory
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Is race biological? why do they happen: blumenbach"s typology, collections of expressed alleles - yes. Collections are arbitrary: genetic explanations for performance not the same as racial explanations for performance. Race: socially constructed category composed of people who share traits that. Members of a society consider important: real in its consequences. Standards change: susie guillory phipps vs. state of louisiana, definitions of black change over time, what makes someone n. a. Might count by some criteria + not by others: fights are political, lots of variation within asia, race = largely imported, european concept. Ethnicity: a shared cultural heritage, for most people, ethnicity is more complex than race, us census hispanic is not a race, but an ethnicity. Prejudice: a rigid + unfair generalization about an entire category of people. Would have several families in my neighborhood. Disadvantaged people who unfairly blame minorities for their own problems: authoritarian personality theory. Rigid moralists see things in black + white: culture theory.
