Chapter 10Race, Ethnicity, and Work
RACE distinctions categorize people in terms of how others respond to them based on presumed biological characteristics. These distinctions are actually socially constructed, and their meaning changes over time and place. (See the shaded box for a contemporary example.) Racial categories are arbitrary and are not consistently related to underlying biological variables. Usually, they are a means of allocating status and privilege in a society, and the resulting social classifications are useful in understanding outcomes for groups of people. Ethnicity is a socially constructed way of sorting people into groups in terms of shared culture, heritage, language, and/or religion. ...
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