Race in the making :
Hirschfeld, Lawrence A.
Race in the making : cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld. - Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, 1998, �1996. - 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) : illustrations. - Learning, development, and conceptual change . - Learning, development, and conceptual change. Bradford book. .
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
Representing race: universal and comparative perspectives -- Mining history for psychological wisdom: rethinking racial thinking -- Domain specificity and the study of race1 -- Do children have a theory of race?1 -- Race, language, and collective inference1 -- The appearance of race: perception in the construction of racial categories1 -- The cultural biology of race1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
In Race in the Making Lawrence Hirschfeld provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference, nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-purpose cognitive competence for understanding and representing human kinds. By demonstrating that a common set of abstract principles underlies all systems of racial thinking, whatever other historical and cultural specificities may be associated with them, he challenges the conventional notion that race is purely a social construction. After surveying the literature on the development of a cultural psychology of race. Hirschfeld presents original studies that examine children's (and occasionally adults') representations of race. He sketches how a jointly cultural and psychological approach to race might proceed, showing how this approach yields new insights into the emergence and the elaboration of racial thinking.
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Cognition and culture.
Racism.
Ethnopsychology.
Cognition in children.
Child psychology.
Prejudices in children.
Child psychology.
Cognition and culture.
Cognition in children.
Ethnopsychology.
Prejudices in children.
Racism.
Continental Population Groups.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Concept Formation.
Infant.
Child.
Cognition.
Prejudice.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BF311 / .H54 1996eb
155.8/2
Race in the making : cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld. - Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, 1998, �1996. - 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) : illustrations. - Learning, development, and conceptual change . - Learning, development, and conceptual change. Bradford book. .
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
Representing race: universal and comparative perspectives -- Mining history for psychological wisdom: rethinking racial thinking -- Domain specificity and the study of race1 -- Do children have a theory of race?1 -- Race, language, and collective inference1 -- The appearance of race: perception in the construction of racial categories1 -- The cultural biology of race1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
In Race in the Making Lawrence Hirschfeld provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference, nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-purpose cognitive competence for understanding and representing human kinds. By demonstrating that a common set of abstract principles underlies all systems of racial thinking, whatever other historical and cultural specificities may be associated with them, he challenges the conventional notion that race is purely a social construction. After surveying the literature on the development of a cultural psychology of race. Hirschfeld presents original studies that examine children's (and occasionally adults') representations of race. He sketches how a jointly cultural and psychological approach to race might proceed, showing how this approach yields new insights into the emergence and the elaboration of racial thinking.
0585003092 9780585003092 9780262082471 0262082470 9780262275415 0262275414
Cognition and culture.
Racism.
Ethnopsychology.
Cognition in children.
Child psychology.
Prejudices in children.
Child psychology.
Cognition and culture.
Cognition in children.
Ethnopsychology.
Prejudices in children.
Racism.
Continental Population Groups.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Concept Formation.
Infant.
Child.
Cognition.
Prejudice.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BF311 / .H54 1996eb
155.8/2