Race-based affirmative action is justifiable in order to increase diversity. While many adversaries criticize the notion that there is a collective responsibility of society to make up for past wrong-doings‚ this argument focuses only on promoting diversity. In colleges‚ having a diverse‚ mixed student body allows students to learn from a wide range of backgrounds. It also helps disadvantaged minorities reach higher leadership positions which would then help the general populations of those minorities
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California’s Race-Based Lockdowns CJS/221 CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE TEAM A NOVEMBER 3‚ 2014 Introduction In this slide show it will show you how Californian prisons are ran and what happens in prison. This slideshow was put together by a group of 6 individuals so there will be a lot of information provided. Provided at the end of the slideshow will be a reference page to where if you would like more information on anything you will be able to look it up. Only thing left
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Race is a social concept used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical‚ cultural‚ ethnic‚ genetic‚ geographical‚ historical‚ linguistic‚ religious‚ and/or social affiliation. When it comes to this social concept‚ vision is used‚ which is what one uses to tell themselves that people look different. But‚ one must ask them self‚ how different are people under the skin? That is why racial passing and the lack of a genetic basis both come into play when thinking
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According to the Cambridge dictionary‚ race is defined as “any group into which humans can be divided according to their shared physical or genetic characteristics.” It is important to know that society focuses on physical characteristics rather than the genetic makeup of these characteristics; for this reason‚ race exists indeed as a social construct. The impact of social construction of race can be felt in different ways including but not limited to housing‚ educational experiences and outcomes
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Katrina Anderson September 3‚ 2013 Title: Why Race‚ Class‚ and Gender Still Matter Authors: Margaret L. Andersen‚ Patricia Hill Collins Publication: Wadsworth The critical issues mentioned in “Why Race Class and Gender Still Matter” are how inequalities are going to be spoken about in the book “Race Class and Gender” and about how race‚ class‚ and gender still effect society today. Another critical topic in this chapter is Hurricane Katrina and how that brought the poverty
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Ian F. Haney Lopez‚ author of The Social Construction of Race‚ expresses race in its true lighting. It goes deeper than the color of one’s skin‚ color of one’s eyes‚ the shape of their features‚ and the sound coming off their lips. The freedom of people was all based upon “the characteristics of our hair‚ complexion‚ and facial features” and that they “still influence whether we are figuratively free or enslaved.” There is nothing false that Lopez says. He completely points out the false laws that
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Race‚ social or biological construct Darran Smith 2015 RACE‚ BIOLOGICAL OR SOCIAL CONSTRUCT Once widely referred to as a biological construct we can now show race to be a social construct due to discoveries in human biology. With these new biological understandings we have also learnt that intelligence cannot be definitively related to race scientifically. In the following it will be argued we can relate them socially and explore the differences of biological and social constructs. A social construct
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at race through a social construction approach would mean that race is not constructed biologically‚ but through social‚ cultural‚ and economic forces (Klement 1). According to Ian Lopez‚ race is socially constructed (27). Looking throughout history‚ it should be noted that race is a human invention (Lopez 27)‚ but the idea was that external differences also equated to internal differences. Therefore‚ according to the Race: The Power of an Illusion films‚ the fundamental notion was that race was
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The social construction of race The definition of race is a classification system used to categorize humans into distinct groups. Nothing in that definition discusses or mentions genes‚ biology or proven facts as the reason for this separation; they are all referred to as a category of race. The division of people by race is a socially constructed idea to better organize the population. This categorization has created different groups and forced society to look at the color of the person as an
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same sex relationships cannot be granted privileges (health care‚ survivor benefits‚ social security) like those of traditional couples since it is not recognized at the federal level. Gender role and sexual orientation also plays a factor in discrimination in the professional setting since ones gender role is based upon ones sex which is determined anatomically. Society assigns ones roles and sexual orientation based upon these factors and if one veers off the common perception of society‚ then one
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