Answer both A. & B.
Please use only materials introduced in the course in your answers.
A.Answer the following question in 500-550 words. In your answer you should incorporate at least 2 readings and refer to class materials . Using the concepts of either race or sex & gender, please answer the following questions:
Using examples from class and the readings, discuss how social stratification regarding race or gender in US society is based on ideology and not biology. In your own words, define biological determinism and explain why it is important to challenge biological determinism regarding an analysis of social hierarchy/stratification. If biology is not satisfactory enough to provide a thorough understanding of observable differences between ethno-racial groups or between males and females, then what does account for some of those observable differences? Finally, what insights have anthropologists gained from cross-cultural research, and how does it challenge us to think differently about race or gender?
