PRAGMATICKÉ A ESENCIALISTICKÉ IDENTITY V USUDZOVANÍ O SOCIÁLNYCH SKUPINÁCH MEDZI VEDCAMI

• Authors: Norbert Maur

Title variants

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Pragmatic and essentialist identities in the reasoning about social groups among scientists

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The paper demonstrates social factors and interactions, which have an effect on reasoning about ethnic and racial groups among social and natural scientists. On one hand, the results demonstrate the social conditions and interpersonal communication interactions, which have an effect on the persistency of essentialist judgment. It turned out that the cognitive system is maintained throughout, no matter what the education and social background the people come from. On the other hand, the results show that it is not always and in every situation that people behave according to the essentialist model. Therefore, in the thesis the author points out also other various social factors and interpersonal discourse interactions, which have an effect upon the overlapping of essentialist judgment. The paper demonstrates that psychological essentialism is permanent and is not possible to overlay it completely, only partially, through education derived from pragmatic images, through liberal family background and under the influence of peer groups and institutions in which they are held, and expressed pragmatic socio-value attitudes.

Keywords

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ESSENTIALISM; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; ETHNICITY; RACE; SOCIAL SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7 – 29

Contributors

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Norbert Maur

• Nadácia Pontis, Zelinárska 2, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic