Interdisciplinary Examination of Race in Social Sciences

There is a push and pull relationship between race as an independent and dependent variable within the social sciences which creates a cyclical overarching sense of idealism. The social sciences study human society and the relationships which make that up. Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology combine within the social sciences, they work together on the broad topic of race to from both analytical perspectives and individual understandings of what constitutes race and how that changes the way society as a whole respond to it. By evaluating the broad topic of race from four disciplines, the social sciences attempt to cover how individual perspectives and understandings of race changes the way society as a whole respond to

This allows anthropologists to look within a society and discuss topics such as race, identity, and culture; however it does not definitively know the outcome of these topics as a whole. Anthropologists show how people in specific areas treat and view race so that they can have deeper understanding of how different societies treat race and have a more holistic view of them from an outsiders prospective as well as to see how universal certain aspects of different cultures are.

When it comes to race, all four disciplines have different ways of approaching how to define and understand it. Political scientists can consider this as either an independent or a dependent variable. As an independent variable, political scientists take into consideration background factors, such as age or income, to predict how individuals theoretically would respond to certain policies or candidates and compare that to how they actually

It is intricately devised in a way in which people’s backgrounds drastically alter how they perceive themselves within their groups as well as how they see their group as a whole. People see their race as one of the groups they assign themselves, however they are also, to an extent, assigned a race. Sociologists would say that within multiethnic societies such as America, the idea of race seems like a broader one because there is more visual distinction between races. However, in more homogeneous societies there may be just as many personally identified races through ideals such as colorism, but without being part of that society they may not be