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Assignment:
Please read the article The Geometer of Race by Stephen Gould.
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Answer the following questions:
1. What is the official designated name, still in use today, for peoples from western Asia, Europe and Northern Africa?
2. Where was Johann Blumenbach from?
3. What was happening in the U.S. at the time Blumenbach published his work?
4. What was Blumenbach's work titled?
5. How did his predecessor categorize human beings?
6. What was the significant ideological shift that Blumenbach initiated (differing from his predecessor Carl Linnaeus)?
7. What subjective human trait did Blumenbach choose as his guide to ranking human beings?
8. Why did Blumenbach add the Malay race category?
9. Why is the word Caucasian still in use today?
Put the following two quotes into your own words:
The two sentences below are quotes from the article.
Put each of them into your own words as your answers for #s 11 and 12.
11. "The shift from a geographic to a hierarchical ordering of human diversity must stand as one of the most fateful transitions in the history of Western science--for what, short of railroads and nuclear bombs, has had more practical impact, in this case almost entirely negative, upon our collective lives? "(last paragraph pg.3)
12. "When scientists adopt the myth that theories arise solely from observation, and do not grasp the personal and social influences acting on their thinking, they not only miss the causes of their changed opinions; they may even fail to comprehend the deep mental shift encoded by the new theory."