Sociological Perspective On Race

Throughout the years, the term “race” has been viewed from different angles. In recent years, people have used physical characteristics like skin color to determine a person’s race. Over the years it has gotten a little overboard with all this assumptions such as forming opinions of their intelligence, sexual orientation, and personality. Race usually refers to the classification of human groups based on genetic physical differences as well as other differences like nationality and history. (Module 8)

In the beginning, race was used to describe people who shared common occupations, tribe or nation. It was not until the 16th century that the word was used to mean people sharing similar physical features. The foundation of problems that relate to race are considered “social.” During the 18th and 19th century, there were only four “races” assigned: Mongoloid, Caucasoid, Negroid, and Australoid. Now decades later, we have created 30 more racial subcategories.

The real meaning of race and how we view and deal with it is an endless process that is changing with time. Race

Having a professional career and being rich are not always overseen from race and ethnic stereotypes and definitely do not protect those who fit those characteristics from any type of racial remarks. In module 9, it states that racial stratification was the central stratification system in the US for many years (Aguilera 21). We still see inequality between Whites and Blacks in today’s world. Studies show that about two in five African Americans are middle-class. And the rest of the underclass majority is unemployed. It seems like class has become more important in determining placement in the stratification system, but the question is still