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11 years ago
How do the power elite according to c wright mills manage their influence and who is the most powerful? Provide examples and explain how race is socially constructed?
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11 years ago
I don't think it is. Universities like to think that if they pretend race doesn't exist, then racism will go away. This, in fact, makes racism worse because it forces dishonesty. Race is not a social construct based on skin color, because we all know people of the same race can have varying skin colors. Race refers to the physical and biological characteristics of certain groups of people.

For example:

- We can identify a person's race based upon skeletal structure, particularly the skull, as all the races have unique skeletal structures. Different races also have different bone densities.

- Blacks have the densest bones due to a need to store calcium and vitamin D in their bones due to their dark skin not allowing the sun to easily penetrate through and manufacture vitamin D in the bones. Whites and East Asians have bones that are less dense because lighter skin allows the sun to more easily penetrate through the skin, thus making it easy to absorb vitamin D from the sun, and making it unnecessary for excess calcium and vitamin D to be stored.
   
- A mutation of the red blood cells known as sickle cell anemia is a trait found only in blacks. It evolved as a way to ward of malaria, which is carried by mosquitoes.

- Caucasians are the only race that develops cystic fibrosis due to a mutation that wards off epithelial cell acidification.

The problem with race is that the classification is often very broad. You have a lot of variation within racial groups, and they can often be reduced into even smaller groups of ethnicity. But even considering that, racial classifications are not baseless and arbitrary social labels. A lot of misinformation about race is out there, and a lot of the 19th century anthropologists who studied it were dead wrong about a lot of things, but that does not mean the whole concept should be thrown out. Darwin was dead wrong about a lot of things, but that does not mean we need to throw out the whole Theory of Evolution.
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11 years ago
Race in America is "socially constructed" to enable leftists to undermine the Judeo Christian, Western, European basis of national formation as a capitalist and republican form of governance.

The Democrats want to isolate the middle aged white male from all other voter blocks, because those other blocks would then have the collective power to rule the political realm and remake the country and the world into a "progressive" leftist one.

In other words, leftists work to divide and conquer by creating victims and exploiter groups, and then pitting them against each other in class warfare. To this end, they will expropriate just and righteous issues and causes, and distort them politically and historically through a variety of means. But, the solution is always... the implementation of a authoritarian socialist government for the existing model.
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11 years ago
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how race is socially constructed?

I agree with psych.war. It's not socially constructed. Race is real, dont let any hairbrain off-in-space marxists tell you otherwise.

Different races have different physical and genetic differences. That is how race is constructed. For all the should-be-killed liberals, they don't understand that western civilization now FAVORS non-white people. And forces diversity and multiculturalism down the throats of everyone.

Its as if we are being brainwashed with one point of view, like we are supposed to all bow to the moral high horse of tolerance. Like its the ONLY way. Who said?
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11 years ago
Many people foolishly believe that black people are INHERENTLY criminal or violent in nature, because the incarceration rate (rate of imprisonment) is so much higher for african-americans. This assumption, however, fails to take into account that the poverty rate is much higher for african-americans. Poverty breeds crime, not race. The rates of crime are high for poor whites, too. Then there's that just because someone's in prison doesn't mean the person actually did it. The legal system has many flaws and one of them is that in a trial-by-jury, it can be hard to safeguard against racism, since the jury is more often than not all white.
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11 years ago
This is a really hard and complicated question, but since no experts seem to be answering, here is my take on the subject.

The particular society in which each of us happens to grow up, shapes our ideas, and highlights certain parts of our individual experiences.
This happens through what our parents say, what we see people do (and DON"T do!), what happens on TV and what we hear our friends regard as good news or bad news.

Some concepts are pretty easy to translate into other cultures. (e.g. mothers' love for small children, seven beans but not eight, the need to eat, sleep, have shelter from the elements)These would be the LEAST socially constructed concepts.

More socially constructed kinds of concepts though, are ideas of behavior, right and wrong, individual relationship to other social groups, and what is important for individuals or the world.

(Examples of more socially constructed concepts are working at a job and how hard to work, individual freedom, individual responsibility to parents, favoritism and corruption in the police, pornography, Many but not all different societies have these concepts but they are applied differently in some different societies.

The application of the concept of "disgusting" is socially constructed. Why don't you eat bugs and worms? Have you ever tried them? No. -nor have I. Our cultures have applied "disgusting" to eating them, but that is not true in all societies.

A Muslim student of my wife's asked her didn't my wife really thing it was disgusting that someone ate pork. Her Syrian society applied the socially constructed idea of "disgusting" to pork)

Some concepts are so particular to certain societies that they cannot be understood by other societies or compared with concepts in that other society.

(Examples are killing a female relative who has been raped to keep "the honor" of your family. "Honor" in this meaning seems totally socially constructed to an American.

Another concept that does not translate into other cultures is "personal rights", such as the right to be happy or a pregnant woman's rlight to her own body.

The ideas of the inevitability of material progress, scientific discovery, universal democracy--are western socially constructed concepts.

People from many non-western societies and they don't all agree with each other- think that we westerners have these ideas as purely socially constructed concepts----bet we think they are as obvious as "1", "23", or "tomorrow")
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