Introduction to Ann Morning’s article “And you thought we had moved beyond all that: biological race returns to the social sciences”, 2014

Abstract

For many decades, sociologists have routinely drawn a line between productions in the social sciences that define race as a social construct and research findings in the natural sciences that use this same notion in order to describe genetically circumscribed groups. The latter publications are labeled essentialist, and are accused of promoting biological reductionism: they are viewed largely negatively by social scientists. Ann Morning’s various books and articles published after completing ...