Visual anthropology

Everything in this room is eatable even I am eatable. But that is called cannibalism my dear children and is in fact frowned upon in most societies (willy wonka).In the famous movie Willy Wonka kids buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in chocolate to try and find a golden ticket. A golden ticket was an invitation to come to Willy Wonka’s factory even though it had been closed for decades. In truth they spent all this money to find a golden ticket so they could visit a factory where they…

Sociologist do not consider the term race as ethnicity due to the fact that race rely solely based on physical differences, while the term ethnicity describes a shared common culture. Race is variation among a group of human beings that is biologically determined—biological differences used to describe varies population. Physical differences; such as, the color of their skin, or texture or color of their hair; allow people to make a distinction based on looks. On the other hand, ethnicity is a…

I used to believe culture was where we came from; I believed that who I was had so much to do with where I came from, but now I realize that who I am has nothing to do with where I came from but from where and who I am now and where I am going. if you asked me to accurately describe who I am in just a few words, I couldn’t do it. I am not the country I came from, nor am I the country I was raised in. I am not my choice in fashion, nor my religious beliefs; nor am I my favorite T.V show or my…

The question of race has been a long debated topic that still has not been answered. Jeffrey Fish embraces this issue in his writing entitled, "Mixed Blood." The document opens by proposing the question of "What is race?", then breaking it down into smaller factions. The two lesser questions that are formed instead are: "How can we understand the variation in physical appearance among human beings? How can we understand the kinds of racial classifications applied to differences in physical…

A social construct is the theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory that examines the development of jointly constructed understandings of the world. Race is considered a social construct because it is an idea reproduced by human thought and interaction rather than something that exists as a material fact of life on earth. One major importance of a social construction is that people rationalize their experience by relating it to other models of the social world. Another major…

Racism in America What is racism, racism is a belief in which some people believe that each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, It is a way of being prejudice and discriminatory against other people and their race. Surprisingly to know there is still racism here in America even after the civil rights movement was establish, it just hidden in different ways. Racism is hides in many different ways, such as the jobs, grocery stores, the real estate market and the…

Through oppression, slavery, and conquest, race as a powerful social category was forged historically. Most geneticists agree that racial taxonomies at the DNA level are invalid. Genetic alterations within any selected racial group are normally greater than differences between racial groups (Cosmides, Tooby, & Kurzban, 2003;Duster, 2009). Race" and "ethnicity" are compound terms which are often used conversely. The terms were divided to label “race” as a biological quality and “ethnicity” as…

Many sociologists argue that race is nothing more than a social construct. The dictionary definition of a social construct is “a social mechanism, phenomenon, or category created and developed by society; a perception of an individual, group, or idea that is 'constructed' through cultural or social practice”. More simply, it is a set of stories society has put together to make sense of the world. In explaining the concept of race this way, sociologists are simply claiming that the ideas we as a…

What is Diversity? Webster Dictionary defines diversity as “the quality or state of having many different forms, types, ideas, etc.” (Merriam-Webster, 2015), However, according to Ron Burgundy “Well I could be wrong, but I believe that diversity was an old, old wooden ship that used during the Civil War era” (Mackay, 2004). This was one of my favor movies, and I have use this for training when covering the topic of diversity. Diversity in its basic function is acceptance of all people, without…

Investigating the effect of cannibalism on light tolerance In this experiment, these people tested whether light tolerance could be transferred through chemical compounds in a species of flatworms. This idea was based off the fact that flatworms could apparently still have memories even if cut in two. What these people wanted to investigate was whether certain "memories" or acquired traits could be retained in a dead worm cut in half and transferred to another worm without the trait being lost.…