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Will using the concept of ‘race’ always involve biological reductionism?
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... Will using the concept of 'race' always involve biological reductionism? "Race is a concept that has long been used to ascribe natural differences to people from different cultural backgrounds" (Popeau 1998:177). Historically 'race' has been based on the principal of biological reductionism. However with developments in sociological views on constructs, advances in genetic science and political creation of ethnicity mean that 'race' will no longer involve biological reductionism. The common sense definition of 'race' is biologically reductionist. This definition was highly developed in the 19th Century with the idea of 'scientific racism'. Scientists believed that races were biologically determined, and debated over different 'races' being different species and they were not sure whether these 'different races' would be able to breed successfully with members of other 'races'. This common sense definition of 'race' is also hierarchical, the idea of racial inferiority and superiority where very much based on the biological definition
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