Explore Fundamental Understanding Of Race: Racial Conceptualization

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This paper explores the fundamental understanding of race and dimensions of racial ideology and practice. Racial conceptualization is seen as a notion of what race is, how race differs and origin of races. The article presents a differing definition of race and attempts to draw significance of racial conceptualization as a field of sociological inquiry. The paper examines basic empirical research and methodological clarifications in analyzing racial conceptualization. Reviews made during the research show that investigations carried out on racial attitudes are developed by sociologist and psychologists, and others as a measure of conceptualization to evaluate its relationship to prejudice. Previous studies on the topic indicate that ideology of race focuses on racial classification and attitudes. Following this research, more than 52 open-ended interviews were conducted between the 2001-02 academic year with undergraduate students at the selected universities, which vividly contributes to empirical findings ...