Anthro 2a Lecture 2
Lecture 2
Limitations – 2 limitations: scientific racism and social evolution
Scientific Racism
I) Intro to Scientific Racism
a. Thesis: social and cultural diff b/w human groups are expressions of fundamentally diff biological stocks (races)
i. Skin color ii. Intelligence
Racist and prejudice statements are different
II) Race is an example of Typologizing
i. A universal human activity – gives humans types / categories to put things into ii. Applies in physical objects as well as human / animal behavior
a. Typologizing is a universal activity
b. Racial categories iii. Linneaus – 18th century; developed all the systems we use to classify groups
1. Classified humans into the “homo-sapiens” group
a. Four “variants”
i. Homo-sapiens Europeaus Albescens ii. Homo-sapiens Asiaticus Fucus iii. Homo-sapiens Africanu Negreus (black) iv. Homo-sapiens Americanus Rubescens (red) iv. Blumebach (1781)
1. “Races”
a. Caucasian (white)
b. Mongolian (yellow)
c. Malay (brown)
d. Ethiopian (black)
e. American (red)
v. Hooton (1926)
1. The Big Three
a. Caucazoid –Europe, Northern Asia, India, Northern Africa
b. Mongoloid - Eastern Asia (Japan, China, etc), pacific islands and Native Americans
c. Negroid – Sub-saharian Africans vi. Characteristics of Racial Types
1. Salient physical characteristics
2. Behavioral propensities
a. Ranking
b. Value Leiden
African – lazy
Asian – melancholy / rigid vii. Monogenesis vs. Polygenesis
1. Monogenesis
a. Common origin of beginning for different people
2. Polygenesis
a. Independent origins of human races
b. Own Adam & Eve
III) Racial Theories & Sociocultural Difference
a. Spreading different languages / methods of conceiving a family
IV) Science, Race, & Culture
a. Culture
i. Provides categories – to think about the world ii. Makes order out of chaos iii. Organizes the thoughts, assumptions, opinions iv. Provides beliefs that causes people to think about the world in a specific way
v. A Priori
Limitations – 2 limitations: scientific racism and social evolution
Scientific Racism
I) Intro to Scientific Racism
a. Thesis: social and cultural diff b/w human groups are expressions of fundamentally diff biological stocks (races)
i. Skin color ii. Intelligence
Racist and prejudice statements are different
II) Race is an example of Typologizing
i. A universal human activity – gives humans types / categories to put things into ii. Applies in physical objects as well as human / animal behavior
a. Typologizing is a universal activity
b. Racial categories iii. Linneaus – 18th century; developed all the systems we use to classify groups
1. Classified humans into the “homo-sapiens” group
a. Four “variants”
i. Homo-sapiens Europeaus Albescens ii. Homo-sapiens Asiaticus Fucus iii. Homo-sapiens Africanu Negreus (black) iv. Homo-sapiens Americanus Rubescens (red) iv. Blumebach (1781)
1. “Races”
a. Caucasian (white)
b. Mongolian (yellow)
c. Malay (brown)
d. Ethiopian (black)
e. American (red)
v. Hooton (1926)
1. The Big Three
a. Caucazoid –Europe, Northern Asia, India, Northern Africa
b. Mongoloid - Eastern Asia (Japan, China, etc), pacific islands and Native Americans
c. Negroid – Sub-saharian Africans vi. Characteristics of Racial Types
1. Salient physical characteristics
2. Behavioral propensities
a. Ranking
b. Value Leiden
African – lazy
Asian – melancholy / rigid vii. Monogenesis vs. Polygenesis
1. Monogenesis
a. Common origin of beginning for different people
2. Polygenesis
a. Independent origins of human races
b. Own Adam & Eve
III) Racial Theories & Sociocultural Difference
a. Spreading different languages / methods of conceiving a family
IV) Science, Race, & Culture
a. Culture
i. Provides categories – to think about the world ii. Makes order out of chaos iii. Organizes the thoughts, assumptions, opinions iv. Provides beliefs that causes people to think about the world in a specific way
v. A Priori