The authors feel the real reason for the differences in the disease susceptibility are social and class based. The three different models are the genetic model, the environmental model and The Marxist paradigm. Heart disease, stroke, and cancer are the racial health disparities the author mention that affects the African American culture. The genetic model implies the theory that "race" is primarily a biological category and that black-white differences in health are genetically determined (Kieger and Bassett 74). The genetic model relies on three basic assumptions which are age, sex, and race in determining racial health disparities among black and white.
Race has often been defined as a grouping or classification based on genetic variations in physical appearance, most notably in skin color. (race. (n.d). Retrieved from EBSCOhost.) Ethnicity is a concept referring to a shared culture and way of life, especially as reflected in language, folkways, religious and other... an ethnicity is often called an ethnic group, although technically the use of "group" is inappropriate in sociological usage because a group is a social system.
By the time we reached late childhood and adolescence our concept of gender identity and sexual orientation is firmly entrenched (Wood, 2010). Our behavior, aspirations and attitudes is also strongly influenced by the gender role expectations in particular cultures. This essay will relate, contrast sex and gender in society and how important it is for sociologists to distinguish them both. The term “sex” is the natural biological genetic makeup that distinguishes males from females and in particular the sexual organs and their characteristics. Bodies are, so we think, natural, God- given, sacred, hardwired.
How does the term differ from ethnicity? The term race refers to one’s biological features, significant physical features that are shared within a certain group of people. (p’s 12-14 text1) A few common examples of race include White English settlers, Asian’s and Indigenous Australian’s (Aboriginals). (p 1 text 1) Most of the above are almost always distinguishable from each other by identifiable physical characteristics such as the features within their faces, eyes, hair and build. (p 14 text 1) There are many ways in which ethnicity differs from race; ethnicity unlike race refers to not a person’s biological features, but characteristics that as human beings they are born into and taught to assimilate with examples include the sharing of one’s language, culture, history, food and dress.
As socially constructed categories, race lump together many ethnic groups in the same racial category, each of the major races typically recognized in United States (African American, European Americans, Latino/a Americans, Native American and Asian Americans) (Burr,1995:130). The racially essentialists cite obvious differences in physical features and then links physical appearance to differences in blood pressure or predisposition to particular disease Dalmage,1965:9) .The above statement really proves that racial constructionists understand race differently far from racial essentialists. Essentialist links biology and race. Strongly believe that it is something the people are born with. For example a child race can be tested trough DNA
Race is defined as a person or group of people who share a common set of obvious physical characteristics such as African Americans who’s skin color is the obvious physical trait of the group. There are many different ways to determine what is obvious but the largest determining factor in the United States is skin color. In other countries they may make distinctions between races by different characteristics such as facial features or hair texture. Ethnicity is harder to define than race it is a term that creates a group based on cultural patterns shared by that particular group. The ethnic patterns are generally developed in the group’s homeland and brought with them to new homelands.
While the dimension of race is often the sole focus when the topic of diversity is addressed, diversity includes the entire spectrum of an individual’s primary dimensions, including race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. The term also encompasses secondary dimensions, including communication style, work style, organizational role/level, economic status, and geographic origin. This paper could focus on any one of the primary or secondary dimensions listed above. I focus on racial demographics because, as noted by retired General Shinseki above, racial diversity is a source of strength for the Army. It is my belief that race—and in particular, the dynamics between blacks and Whites—play a unique and historically significant role in issues of diversity in the Army.
La’Toyrious Granville Mrs. Sharon Cargill English 12 20 February 2013 Racial Profiling Racial Profiling is mentally segregating and it disunites the U.S.A because it permits negative aspects to every race. In the U.S. it is acceptable to embrace foundations and establishments like BET, Black Entertainment Television, and/or The Chinese District, For example, but what if these titles were revised to WET, White Entertainment Television or The Iraqi District? Would these organizations be appropriate or racially disgraceful? From any standpoint it is mental segregation. Programs like the previously listed instills the negative trait of racial profiling into child before he or she has any idea of what racial profiling is, it programs them to judge and make race a chief factor when it should not be (Psycho 1).
Racial ideologies are probably most common in Caucasian people towards black people. I say this because Caucasians look at black as terrible, that they automatically going to do something bad to you. Race and racial ideology has been used throughout U.S. history more then we think. It mostly started when Africans were brought to America as slaves to the plantation owners. The Caucasians thought that since they live in a 3rd world
Race, Ethnicity, and Families The beginning of this chapter discusses racial-ethnic groups. It suggests that some racial categories are more flexible such as American Indians. It is more difficult to define an ethnic group than it is a racial group. A racial-ethnic group is a group a people who share a common identity and whose members think of themselves as distinct from others by virtue of ancestry, culture, and sometimes physical characteristics. Hispanic refers to a person living in the United States who traces his or her ancestry to Latin America.