Socially constructed racial ideas produce real material consequences for inclusion and exclusion.

Evidence

But what is of importance for social researchers studying race and ethnicity is that such ideas also carry with them material consequences for those who are included within their parameters or excluded in terms of their extension. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 105

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the classic sociological point (e.g., W.I. Thomas’s dictum) that socially defined situations have real consequences.