Question

Where does sociology fit into the discussion of understanding race relations? How can using your sociological perspective break down some of the barriers that keep people from seeing the issues clearly?

Answer 1

Sociology as a discipline that scientifically studies the society, interaction between various groups in the societies, culture etc. Race is one of the areas that differentiates people genetically, geographically and behaviourally. So, studying race and how it impacts the relationship and exchanges among various races becomes very important in order to understand the current social structure.
Historically, the basic misunderstanding that one race is superior than the other race has brought lots of inequality in the society and the economical imbalance it caused continues still today. Race was also connected to the intelligence which was a misunderstanding. Later, scientists proved that race has got nothing to do with intelligence.
People need to understand the fact that race shouldn't be used as a tool to determine the ability and behaviors of people but they need to understand the environment, social structure etc. in order understand one's behavior better. So, stereotyping someone based on the race, Colorado, ethnicity will be an injust act. Sociology plays a major role in making people understand the ubtle differences among the races.