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Demonstrating how race is socially constructed has been a core sociological objective, yet many individuals continue to hold essentialist and other concepts of what races are and how to account for group differences.
Applied to racial identity, cultural essentialism is the belief that racial categories are associated with distinct, fixed, and stable cultural patterns (e.g., values, beliefs, practices, and lifestyles); these fixed cultural patterns definitively and permanently shape the psychological characteristics of individuals within a racial group, and ...
25 cze 2019 · Racial essentialism is the belief that races are biologically distinct groups with defining core “essences,” a notion associated with increased social distance and racial bias.
29 maj 2017 · Cultural and biological forms of racial essentialism share the idea that differences between racial groups are determined by a fixed and uniform essence that resides within and defines all members of each racial group. However, they differ in their understanding of the nature of this essence.
This volume examines how the notions of race as a genetic reality and race as a social essence shape biomedical and social scientific research and racial inequality. It challenges the ideological double helix of biological determinism and racial essentialism that intertwines to influence beliefs and policies.
15 mar 2022 · Racial essentialism is a subtype of psychological essentialism that is critical for understanding the underlying and identity-determining essences in social categorization 39.
19 cze 2017 · Study 1 revealed that racial essentialism was associated with increased prejudice toward Blacks among both White and Black adult participants, suggesting that essentialism relates to prejudice according to social hierarchy rather than only to group membership.
