Will using the concept of race always involve biological reductionism?

Will using the concept of 'race' always involve biological reductionism?
"Race is a concept that has long been used to ascribe natural differences to people from different cultural backgrounds" (Popeau 1998:177). Historically 'race' has been based on the principal of biological reductionism. However with developments in sociological views on constructs, advances in genetic science and political creation of ethnicity mean that 'race' will no longer involve biological reductionism.
The common sense definition of 'race' is biologically reductionist. This definition was highly developed in the 19th Century with the idea of 'scientific racism'. Scientists believed that races were biologically determined, and debated over different 'races' being different species and they were not sure whether these 'different races' would be able to breed successfully with members of other 'races'. This common sense definition of 'race' is also hierarchical, the idea of racial inferiority and superiority where very much based on the biological definition of 'race', Pre-existing ideas about the 'savage' and the 'oriental' were firmly placed in the minds of colonising Europeans. "Africans in particular were stereotyped as something 'less than human'" (Bradley 1996:116), they viewed these other 'races' as "the white mans burden" (Bradley 1996:116). However the idea of 'races' being biologically inferior can be taken to the extreme e.g. genocide after which using the concept of 'race' in terms of biological reductionism becomes objectionable. The strongest example of which was 'The Final Solution', the Nazis answer to the 'Jewish question'. After the full realisation of the purpose of the holocaust had been discovered approaches towards biologically racism began to change.
"Race is a concept that has long been used to ascribe natural differences to people from different cultural backgrounds" (Popeau 1998:177). Historically 'race' has been based on the principal of biological reductionism. However with developments in sociological views on constructs, advances in genetic science and political creation of ethnicity mean that 'race' will no longer involve biological reductionism.
The common sense definition of 'race' is biologically reductionist. This definition was highly developed in the 19th Century with the idea of 'scientific racism'. Scientists believed that races were biologically determined, and debated over different 'races' being different species and they were not sure whether these 'different races' would be able to breed successfully with members of other 'races'. This common sense definition of 'race' is also hierarchical, the idea of racial inferiority and superiority where very much based on the biological definition of 'race', Pre-existing ideas about the 'savage' and the 'oriental' were firmly placed in the minds of colonising Europeans. "Africans in particular were stereotyped as something 'less than human'" (Bradley 1996:116), they viewed these other 'races' as "the white mans burden" (Bradley 1996:116). However the idea of 'races' being biologically inferior can be taken to the extreme e.g. genocide after which using the concept of 'race' in terms of biological reductionism becomes objectionable. The strongest example of which was 'The Final Solution', the Nazis answer to the 'Jewish question'. After the full realisation of the purpose of the holocaust had been discovered approaches towards biologically racism began to change.
