03-19-2018, 07:06 PM
(03-19-2018, 05:31 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: To answer your final question: because no one says they don't exist, they say that they're a social stratification. Social constructs are still relevant in scientific studies.
(03-19-2018, 06:19 PM)Dill Wrote: .....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. After all, if an Asian person looks so different from a European, how could they [i]not be from distinct groups? Even if most scientists reject the concept of “race” as a biological concept, race exists, undeniably, as a social and political concept.[/i]
Okay, so when I see scientific studies done by scientists and they break down the results among different "races" how do they do that? What standard do they use to divide their study groups by race?
