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- Culture:
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The customs, beliefs, values, traditions, and knowledge shared by a society or community, which are transmitted from generation to generation
- Race:
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A socially constructed concept that refers to a category or group of people that share a common ancestry, physical characteristics, and/or language
Introduction
Historically, the relationship between culture and race has been a source of debate. Although it was originally believed that race differed from culture in that race was a biological construct, findings from human genetics research have challenged the view that race is genetically determined. In particular, research showing that there is more within- than between-group variation in races led scholars to conceptualize race as a social, rather than biological, construct (Worrell 2015). The conceptualization of race as a social construct has increased uncertainty regarding the relationship between culture and...
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Messer, R.H., Gonzalez, G.D.S. (2021). Relationship Between Culture and Race. In: Shackelford, T.K., Weekes-Shackelford, V.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_524
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