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Racism understands human races to be separate and clear-cut clusters of people, based on biological criteria that are fixed and relevant for their behavior. While humans do vary biologically, their variation does not fall into such clusters that correspond to racial categories.
10 Ιαν 2017 · We can approach these philosophical concerns by looking at how we might define a race concept from both ordinary discourse (the folk definition), and from the viewpoint of the biological sciences (as a subspecies or population cluster).
The early history of academic anthropology and the wider human sciences is pervaded by efforts to draw a causal link between race and behavior, psychology, culture, or social organization. Enforcing a racial taxonomy in accordance with the system of classification developed by the Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus, anthropologists assigned ...
Let’s start first with race, which refers to a category of people who share certain inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, facial features, and stature. A key question about race is whether it is more of a biological category or a social category.
In 2012 a broad national survey of anthropologists examined prevailing views on race, ancestry, and genetics. Results demonstrate consensus that there are no human biological races and recognition that race exists as lived social experiences that can have important effects on health.
Race: an attempt to categorize humans based on observed physical differences. Racial formation: the process of defining and redefining racial categories in a society. Reified: the process by which an inaccurate concept or idea is accepted as “truth.”
27 Ιουλ 2016 · Race is a human classification system that is socially constructed to distinguish between groups of people who share phenotypical characteristics. Since race is socially constructed, dominant groups in society have shaped and informed racial categories in order to maintain systems of power—thereby also producing racial inequality.
