Recent studies suggest that race is no longer viewed as a biological category by most anthropologists in the United States, but less empirical work has been carried out in other countries. In this study, we engaged the Polish academic community in anthropology (biological and cultural) and biology by conducting surveys to assess how its members approach and conceptualize race in these disciplines. We surveyed participants (a total of 270 respondents) on their views on the existence of races (i.e. whether humans may be subdivided into biological races), whether race is a concept that is needed in science, what the term ‘race’ should symbolize, and whether the respondents were familiar with the term ‘social race’. The results demonstrate that although the view on the reality of races is still generally shared by the majority of the studied academic community, an awareness of the non‐existence of races in our species has emerged among a group of biological anthropologists. Both biologists and cultural anthropologists in Poland associated race mostly with a category of biological classification, while for biological anthropologists, race primarily symbolized a relic of the past. The article emphasizes the importance of becoming acquainted with the debate over race in academic discourse as well as the role of education in shaping attitudes towards race.

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“种族”的概念化：波兰学者关于种族概念的调查


最近的研究表明，美国大多数人类学家不再将种族视为一个生物学类别，但在其他国家进行的实证工作较少。在这项研究中，我们通过进行调查来评估其成员如何在这些学科中处理和概念化种族，从而让波兰学术界参与人类学（生物和文化）和生物学。我们调查了参与者（共 270 名受访者）对种族存在的看法（即人类是否可以细分为生物种族）、种族是否是科学中需要的概念、“种族”一词应该象征什么，以及受访者是否熟悉“社会种族”一词。结果表明，尽管大多数研究学术界仍然普遍同意对种族现实的看法，但一群生物人类学家已经意识到我们物种中不存在种族。波兰的生物学家和文化人类学家都主要将种族与一类生物分类联系起来，而对于生物人类学家来说，种族主要象征着过去的遗迹。文章强调了熟悉学术话语中关于种族的辩论的重要性，以及教育在塑造种族态度方面的作用。