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What do social and physical scientists think about the concept of race. Is race a sound biological concept? What is meant by the Social Construction of Reality as regards our perceptions of racial differences?

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What do social and physical scientists think about the concept of race. Is race a sound biological concept? What is meant by the Social Construction of Reality as regards our perceptions of racial differences?
There is really no good answer to this question because the term "race" itself is not consistently defined. For example the term race in Latin languages is synonymous with the word "breed". So for example Latin people talk of a certain race (breed) of dog or cat as well as a particular race (breed) of human. In this context we might claim that races do exist and are based on differing visual characteristics as opposed to actual biological characteristics. In other words it depends on whether we are defining ...

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