Race (Racism)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pierre L Van Den Berghe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosr007 |
| OpenAlex | W4242357489 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
The term “racism” widely entered the social science vocabulary in the 1930s, as part of the Boasian reaction against the social Darwinism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ruth Benedict, a student of Franz Boas, was one of the prominent early users. By the 1950s and 1960s, a broad consensus developed as to what racism meant, namely, an attitude or theory that some human groups, socially defined by biological descent and physical appearance, were superior or inferior to other groups in physical, intellectual, cultural, or moral properties. It was clearly understood that “races” were socially defined, differently in different societies, but according to physical phenotypes, such as skin color, facial features, or hair texture
Aesthetics · Darwinism · Epistemology · Human physical appearance · Linguistics · Political science · Race (biology · Racism · Social Darwinism · Sociology · Vocabulary · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2018 (43) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |