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Race and ethnicity ANTHRO
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- 1priviledge- a special benefit to a particular person or group
- a way of life that involves having many advantages and opportunities, without working hard for them
- - 2what brings us together- social institutions
- social solidarity
- kinship
- political integration
- ethnicity
- race - 3races in biology- genetically, more difference within races than between
- clines: physical variation tends to be gradual (continuous variation)
- race was a concept that was invented to categorize the percieved biological, cultural and social differences between human groups - 4if race is not biological, then what is it?- according to emilie durkham
- social facts are everything of social or culture nature which works to determine an individuals life
- can be social norms, values, conventions, rules and other social structures - 5race as a social fact- race, like gender and law, is not immutable, unchanging or an essential timeless thing, but socially constructed
- race has a history - 6early race theory- if they can make one race less than human then dont treat them like humans
- 7carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)known to place humans and apes in the same place to put it a genetic connection
- ordered humans to look at the similarities
- anti evolutionist - 8samuel Morton (1799 - 1851)- collect and measure the skulls of native americans to measure their cranial capacity
- 9Francis Galton (1822 - 1911)- manipulating races by selectively breeding them
- eugenics
- eugenics would provide those characteristics for future generations
- reversion towards mediocracy - 10race and intelligence- measuring physical features
- intelligence testing
army alpha
army beta
- - 11the social construct of race- integrated component of how society views itself
- language, politics, media
- embedded in worldviews, ideologies
- physical characteristics are coupled with mental/emotional capacity - 12inequality- race, ethnicity, caste, nationality
- the ways complex societies are organized - 13ways that groups organizesocial institutions, social solidarity, kinship, political integration, ethnicity, race, nation/location, work, class
- 14ColonialismThe political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory by a foreign power for an extended time
- 15imperialism- a policy of extending the rule of a country or an empire over foreign nations and of taking and holding foreign countries
- 16colonial justifications- British: white mans burden
- french: mission civilisatrice - 17imperial ruination- the idea that colonialism and imperialism leave ruins
colonial rule was often all encompassing, insinuating itself into, and created new economic patterns, social patterns, religious patterns and social norms
- economic structure of our regions
- physical infrastructure of these regions - 18colourblind multiculturalism- seeing race is is NOT racist
- seeing race and using that superficial quality to make harmful assumptions about someone - 19systems of social stratificationachieved and ascribed
- 20achieved- born in a class but you can work yourself out of it
- achieve social status - 21ascribed- born with and cannot change
- race and ethnicity - 22natural selection- a process by which the forms most fit for survival and reproduce in a given environment
- Those less likely to reproduce are less likely to pass on their genes - 23Gloger's rule- populations of birds and mammals living in a warmer climates have a higher level of melanin and therefore have darker skin, fur, feathers than species living in cooler areas
- 24ethnicity- members of an ethnic group share certain beliefs, values, habits, customs, and norms because of a common background
- They define themselves based on different cultural features - 25identity- situational identities are mutually exclusive
- when one identity is emphasized in some social setting, anther in different settings
- minority/majority status - 26Hypodescent- racial identity is ascribed at birth
- the children of a union between members of different groups take on a minority group
- hypo= lower - 27tribe or ethnic group is synonymous with?nation
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