Assertion: white people's race | /r/HasProperty | social construct
Facets:
value: without biological meaning
type: OTHER
value: in this sense
type: OTHER
value: far from
type: OTHER
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: According to geneticist David Reich, "while race may be a social construct, differences in genetic ancestry that happen to correlate to many of today
text: Some scholars have challenged the notion that race is primarily a social construction by arguing that race has a biological basis.
text: As it turns out, we all share 99.99 percent of the same genetic code -- no matter our race -- a fact that, geneticist J. Craig Venter claimed, proves that race is a "social concept, not a scientific one.
text: In this sense, races are said to be social constructs.
text: The fact that someone can count on being considered “black” in one society and not “black” in another society underscores the idea that race is best considered a social construction rather than a biological category.
text: They thus came to believe that race itself is a social construct, a concept that was believed to correspond to an objective reality but which was believed in because of its social functions.
text: Since race is a social construct, how does the government decide who is non-white?
text: What emerges from this is a convincing argument that race, far from being a permanent scheme of categorizing human beings, is a social construct, a relatively recent development that has changed over time.
text: Race is a social construct used by census bureaus as a way to classify the people living within a country.
text: Race is a social construct, not a biological fact.
text: While scientists have challenged race’s biological foundation, and many of us now understand race to be a social construct, “race has not lost its biological origins“.
text: The notion that race is a social construct essentially means that race has no scientific basis or biological reality.
text: While race is a social construct, this does not mean that it hasn't had real, tangible effects on people.
text: In the biological and social sciences, the consensus is clear: race is a social construct, not a biological attribute.
text: However, even if scientists agree that race is, at most, a social construct, any cursory search of the internet reveals that the broader public is not convinced of this.
text: Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.
text: The fact that there exists disagreement, whether between Whites and Blacks, or within Whites and Blacks, drives home the point of this article: Race is a social construction with no true or absolute biological basis.
text: Again, race is a social construction, where societies generate informal or formal rules about what we see (i.e., perception) and how to act and treat others (i.e., discrimination).
text: All of this renders “race” a social construction.
text: The current mainstream view in the social sciences and biology is that race is a social construction based on folk ideologies that construct groups based on social disparities and superficial physical characteristics.
text: The reason sociologists say race is a social construction is because what it means to be
text: This is why, although race is a social construction (what it means to be Black, White or Asian is determined by culture), race has real consequences because racial categories were invented for the sole purpose of reinforcing inequality.
text: We’ve learned that race is a social construction describing how groups are placed into categories that are used to justify inequality.
text: While initially denying her scam, she would go on to argue that, because race is a social construction, she identifies as a Black woman because that was her cultural affinity.
text: While "race" as a notion is a social construction and not rooted in biology, it has had real, tangible effects on African Americans and other people of color in terms of economic resources, educational and professional opportunities, and experiences with the legal system.
text: Venter said, "Race is a social concept.
text: Instead, race as a way to differentiate human beings is a social concept, a product of human thought, that is innately hierarchical.