Question

How do sociologists define race? an inherited set of predispositions a group with a shared cultural heritage the same way they define ethnicity the difference between mongoloid, negroid, and caucasoid people a social category based on real or perceived biological differences?

Answer 1

Sociologists define race as the difference between mongoloid, negroid, and Caucasoid people.

Answer 2

The correct answer is:

the difference between mongoloid, negroid, and caucasoid people

Basically, race refers to people's bodies - someone adopted into another family is not changing their race.

Ethnicity refers to the culture a person was born into and raised into - a child adopted would adopt their parent's ethnicity, since it would identify with the culture of the parents.