Visual essentialism & social kinds

IF 1.4 3区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2021-08-03 DOI:10.1111/jtsb.12318
Katie Tullmann
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Scholars increasingly deny that they are strictly biological. Instead, these scholars argue that they are socially constructed. One challenge is to square the notion of social kinds with the apparent perception of those categories. I argue that we do not perceive social categories such as race. Instead, racial categories are visually encoded based on visible markers that are proxies for social kinds. Thus, I argue that the assumption of seeing social categories commits us to a flawed theory of visual essentialism: the idea that some social kinds are visible properties that are biologically determined.

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视觉本质主义&社会类型
学者们越来越否认它们是严格意义上的生物。相反,这些学者认为它们是社会建构的。一个挑战是将社会类型的概念与这些类别的明显感知相一致。我认为我们没有察觉到种族这样的社会类别。相反,种族分类是基于代表社会类型的可见标记进行视觉编码的。因此,我认为,看到社会类别的假设使我们陷入了一个有缺陷的视觉本质主义理论:一些社会类别是由生物学决定的可见属性。
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期刊介绍: The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour publishes original theoretical and methodological articles that examine the links between social structures and human agency embedded in behavioural practices. The Journal is truly unique in focusing first and foremost on social behaviour, over and above any disciplinary or local framing of such behaviour. In so doing, it embraces a range of theoretical orientations and, by requiring authors to write for a wide audience, the Journal is distinctively interdisciplinary and accessible to readers world-wide in the fields of psychology, sociology and philosophy.
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