race

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 considers such categories misleading since we now know that no society is composed of biologically pure individuals because of the human migration and the interracial births. People with different races have different ethnicity or different shared cultural heritage. Members of an ethnic catego...