RACE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CONCEPT

Race biological and social concept

Race biological and social concept

Race as a socially constructed concept is defined as a group of individuals loosely bound by historically and socially significant morphology or ancestry who are labeled as such because of observable commonality in their physical attributes (Foster, 2002)

Differentiating the two concepts, race, in the biological perspective is highly beneficial for scientific endeavor since it is believed to be helpful in understanding ethnic differences in identifying diseases and people's response to drugs (Foster, 2002). According to Dr. Neil Risch, a geneticist at Stanford University , every ethnic tribe within ...