Problem
Scientific racism
Other Names:
Racial biologyRacially-determined differences in intelligence
Nature:
from the Wikipedia:
Scientific racism denotes the use of scientific, or ostensibly scientific, findings and methods to support or validate racist attitudes and worldviews. It is based on belief in the existence and significance of racial categories, but extends this into a hierarchy between the races to support political or ideological positions of racial supremacy. Scientific racism can refer to both obsolete and contemporary scientific theories, and includes the use of anthropology (notably physical anthropology), anthropometry, craniometry, and other disciplines in the construction of typologies and the classification of humans into distinct biological races.
Broader Problems:
RacismSocial inequalityHuman physical differenceDiscriminatory biological theories Narrower Problems:
Racial impurityCultural differences in fertilityPredominance of certain ethnic groups in drug-related crime Related Problems:
Genetic weaponsIntellectual disability Gender inequalityQuestionable factsCultural relativismDistorted exclusiveness of social groups Aggravates:
Caste systemRacial segregationMixed race marriageInequality in educationInequality of opportunityConceptual repression of problemsDiscriminatory preferences in organ transplantsInadequacy and insensitivity of intelligence testing Reduced By:
Racial homogenizationStrategies:
Reducing incidence of scientific racismExploiting racially-determined differences in intelligenceDismissing racial-profiling in intelligenceReducing racial inequalityPreserving racial inequalityStudying intelligence of racial groups References:
Reich, Michael: Racial Inequality: a political-economic analysisde Gobineau, Arthur: Essai sur l'inégalité des races humainesBlock, Ned: Race, Genes and IQ Subject(s):
Biosciences → BiologyEducation → Educational level
Mankind → Human
Psychology → Psychology
Science → Science
Society → Racial, ethnic groups
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST