Making Race Out of Nothing

Psychologically Constrained Social Roles

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ID20008063
AutoresRon Mallon (0000-0001-8347-8939), Daniel Kelly (0000-0002-1847-0655, Purdue University West Lafayette)
Ano2012
Data de publicação2012-08-06
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoThe Oxford handbook of philosophy of social science (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392753.013.0021
OpenAlexW1517777567
ISBN9780195392753
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas45

This article introduces the sort of solution that has typically been given to the race puzzle, and suggests some ways in which such a solution might be extended and improved. Racial categories are not biological groupings, but are rather social roles of some sort. The denial of the biological reality of race, and accounts of racial phenomena spelled out in terms of social roles, representations, and practices of racial classification, are explored. The most striking thing about implicit biases, including racial biases, is that they can coexist within a single individual, with explicit attitudes which are prima facie incompatible with them. Racial disparities in employment provide an area in which social scientific explanations can be usefully enriched by appeal to implicit racial biases. Race may not be biologically real, but it remains important. The social roles are strongly affected by the specific character of the psychological mechanisms in play

Appeal · Denial · Epistemology · Nothing · Political science · Prejudice (legal term) · Prima facie · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology) · Racial formation theory · Racism · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology