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Racism and Prejudice
Title: Racism and Prejudice
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
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Racism and Prejudice
Kismartoni
Sociology
May 27, 1998
Racism and Prejudice
Background
People of the world are part of different races, which share different biologically transmitted traits that members of society deem socially significant. Nineteenth-century biologist labeled people with relatively light skin and fine hair as Caucasians; they called those with darker skin and coarser, curlier hair Negroid; and people with yellow or brown skin and distinctive folds on the eyelids were termed Mongoloid.
Sociologist consider such categories misleading since …showed first 75 words of 1186 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1186 total…environment? " The article draws the conclusion that cultural patterns matter, because genetic changes occur thousands of years and these people largely intermarried among themselves. "Nature" simply cannot explain such a dramatic rise in IQ scores.
Chapter 12 talks about the difference between the race and ethnicity. This chapter explains how people prejudice minorities and gives various theories of prejudice. The chapter also explicates what is a stereotype and racism, describes discrimination, pluralism, assimilation, segregation and genocide.
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