Learning Targets:
1. You will learn the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality.
2. You will learn the definition of race from a sociological perspective. 3. You will learn the history of race as a social construct. |
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Start Teaching yo Self!Sociologists define race as a concept that is used to signify different types of human bodies. While there is no biological basis for racial classification, sociologists recognize a long history of attempts to organize groups of people based on similar skin color and physical appearance. The absence of any biological foundation makes race often difficult to define and classify, and as such, sociologists view racial categories and the significance of race in society as unstable, always shifting, and intimately connected to other social forces and structures. |
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