Race and Ethnicity (Chapter 10)

The concept of race and ethnicity within sociology is a very heavily debated subject and is often the focus of confusion. Defined in Chapter 10 an ethnic group is 'a social category of people who share a common culture' - people with a common religion, language, custom, practice, or history. This group may not be geographically or biologically close but they share a common cultural bond. However, race differs in the fact that it refers strictly to the biological sense - physical characteristics of those people. I chose this topic because race and ethnicity are often so controversially confused and are two sociological concepts that frequent impact daily life.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01997_5.x/full
This collection of articles in the sociological review specifically focuses on ethnicity in relation to race, nation, and culture - attempting to differentiate ethnicity as something of its own. I feel this is a crucially important link to grasping how ethnicity affects sociology as it is often so confused with race when one does not necessarily connect to the other.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614002457
The second article relates to my previously studied topic and connects issues of biological race characters with the social class and separation of women in China. I feel it effectively demonstrates the correlation and overall effect that race and/or ethnicity can have on social grouping and interaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2aHvtgX-jY
While I feel this video is overall poorly put together it does create good reference and establish crucial distinction between race and ethnicity while simultaneously relating it to other social concepts such as grouping, inequality, and conflict perspective.

http://www.pbs.org/topics/culture-society/race-ethnicity/
The PBS website has an extensive section specifically discussing race and ethnicity. It not only covers the distinction between the two but relates it to overall themes of sociology, cultural interaction, and a general study of people.

http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reic/definitions.asp
The last link and website does not serve as a necessarily overview of race and ethnicity but still can be utilized as an intriguing investigation into social separation, race, and ethnicity being explicitly described by a bureaucratic order.