Visual essentialism & social kinds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975724 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Tullmann (0000-0002-0282-1377, Northern Arizona University Flagstaff Arizona USA), Katie Tullmann (Northern Arizona University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 242-259 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12318 |
| OpenAlex | W3189031011 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 46 |
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
Epistemology · Essentialism · Perception · Race (biology · Social category · Social perception · Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Social Psychology
The Rationality of Perception
Perceptual Learning
Perceptions of race
Essentialist beliefs about social categories
Psychological essentialism in children
Which Properties are Represented in Perception?
I — Sally Haslanger
Stamped from the Beginning
Racecraft
Essentialism Promotes Racial Prejudice by Increasing Endorsement of Social Hierarchies
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
Attitude, Inference, Association
Pride, prejudice, and ambivalence
White Americans' Genetic Lay Theories of Race Differences and Sexual Orientation
Elevators, social spaces and racism
Do you see what I see? How social differences influence mindreading
Social Construction and the Concept of Race
Resurrecting Biological Essentialism
Adoption Matters
Intentionalism Defended
Cognitive Penetration of Colour Experience
What Are We Talking About? The Semantics and Politics of Social Kinds
Distinguished Lecture
The cattle of money and the cattle of girls among the Nuer, 1930-83
Are Ethnic Groups Biological "Species" to the Human Brain
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |