The sociologists position is:
1. They do not accept the existence of race as a biological construct. They believe that biologically there is only the human race.
2. They believe that race is a social construct that has its roots back in the era of colonialism and slavery.
3. Racism is used to describe a form of hostile and negative behaviour by the majority or the mainstream in society against a group of people where the group is defined as an out-group.
4. The out-group is a result of one or more of several potential factors including their skin colour, their nationality, their culture and identity, their religion, their language, or the fact they are taking the jobs of the majority or the mainstream in society.
The man on the street position is:
1. Race exists as a biological construct.
2. Racism is used to describe a form of hostile and negative behaviour against a group of people of a particular biological race.
3. Racism can be directed at people of any race by people of any race regardless of the sizes of the groups in question, as opposed to the majority or the mainstream of society against a group of people smaller in number.
4. Hostile and negative behaviour against a group of people resulting from non-biological factors such as culture and identity, religion, or the fact they are taking the jobs of the majority or the mainstream in society, is not racism.