Correct Answer - Option 3 : Social
We all must have experienced that every human being is individually different. There are differences in our body types and genetic qualities. People inhabiting different geographical areas exhibit differences in some basic physical characteristics.
- "Through the process of natural selection and genetics, populations inhabiting different geographic regions will come to exhibit some differences in biological traits. When differences within a species become sufficiently noticeable, biologists may classify different populations into different varieties or races.”
- Anthropologists contend that the idea of race and racism is social in nature, as race shows biologically inherent features but used for violence and suppression by society as a tool of exploitation.
- Racism is a belief that some groups of people are genetically superior and some are inferior in basic human capabilities.
- This argument was carried forward to its logical conclusion by feminist anthropologists when they tried to demonstrate that like kinship, gender is also rooted more in culture rather than in biology.
- Thus, a common thread that binds both race and gender is the contention that discriminations based on these categories of social stratification (hierarchy) are determined more by social and cultural specificities rather than biological truths.
- So, we may say now that Race is a social construction.
