1 It is not, and never has been, true that the Hyaenidae is a family distinguished by scavenging. 2  Of the four species alive today-the Aardwolf and the Spotted, Striped and Brown Hyaenas-only the latter two are full-time scavengers.
Social Construction of Whiteness. Race is not based on genetics. Race as a social construction. Biologization of culture replaced genetic arguments, but is equally flawed. Differences between different races defended as genetic, now debunked. Changing constructions throughout U.S. history. Whiteness is a social construction. The result of an infinite number of daily interactions between people in a society. History of de jure and de facto racial privilege and oppression in U.S. Unearned, systematic privileges accrued as a result of being white.
The bonds that link group members to one another and to their group as a whole are not believed to develop spontaneously. Over the years, social scientists have explained the phenomenon of group cohesiveness in different ways.his concept of being attracted to the group itself is reminiscent of the social identity theory. According to Hogg (1992), group cohesiveness is based on social attraction, which refers to attraction among members of a salient social group(p. 100).