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Subject: Stratification and Diversification

Title : Concepts of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism

The concept of ‘race’

Miles defines racism “as any set of claims or arguments which signify some aspect of the physical features of an individual or group as a sign of permanent distinctiveness and which attribute additional, negative characteristics and/or consequences to the individual’s or group’s presence.” For this to mark a racist attitude the biological difference must be genetically inheritable.

Whilst not all sociologists would accept this definition of racism, it has the use of indicating that any theoretical justification of racism is underpinned by a pseudoscientific theory that there exist different races, and furthermore, that these races have distinct abilities that justify the use of terms such as “superior race” and “inferior race”.

This in turn is used to justify the domination of “inferior races” by “superior races”.
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