The construction of human kinds
by Mallon, Ron
Ron Mallon explores how thinking and talking about kinds of person can bring those kinds into being. He considers what normative implications this social constructionism has for our understanding of our practices of representing human kinds, like race, gender, and sexual orientation, and for our own agency.
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- Full title :The construction of human kinds / Ron Mallon.
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Ron Mallon explores how thinking and talking about kinds of person can bring those kinds into being. He considers what normative implications this social constructionism has for our understanding of our practices of representing human kinds, like race, gender, and sexual orientation, and for our own agency.
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- Publication Date:©2016
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
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- Description:1 online resource (250 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191816796, 0191816795, 9780191072291, 019107229X
- oclc:ocn959949074
- LC Classification:BD450
- Dewey Decimal:128
Table of Contents
Cover; The Construction of Human Kinds; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 What is Social Construction?; 2 Representations and Categories; 3 Constructing Representations; 4 Constructing Categories; 5 Overview; 5.1 Part I; 5.2 Part II; 5.3 Part III; PART I: Constructing Human Kinds; 1: Constructing and Constraining Representations: Was Race Thinking Invented in the Modern West?; 1 In What Does the Conceptual Break Consist?; 1.1 What is a change in concept, meaning, or theory?; 1.2 Historical emergence of racial essentialism; 1.3 A conceptual break in history.
1.4 Racial essentialism as criterial of race2 An Evolutionary Cognitive Account of Racial Essentialism; 2.1 Broad essentialism; 2.2 Inheritance thinking; 2.3 Developmental evidence of theoretical sophistication; 3 Essentialism across Cultures; 3.1 Cross-cultural qualitative evidence of lineage essentialist thinking; 3.1.1 PREMODERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN; 3.1.2 CHINA; 3.1.3 INDIA; 3.1.4 LINEAGE ESSENTIALISM REAPPEARS; 3.2 Brazil; 3.3 Vezo; 3.4 Innate, domain-specific, and species-typical; 4 Critiquing of "Folk Essentialism" and the Conceptual Break Hypothesis.
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