Cultural Constructionism

What Is Race? ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 38-72
Author(s):  
Chike Jeffers
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Default Position

Chike Jeffers argues in this chapter that social constructionism about race is a preferable position to non-biological essentialism about race (such as the kind defended by Quayshawn Spencer in Chapters 3 and 7) and anti-realism about race (such as the kind Joshua Glasgow defends in Chapters 4 and 8). He then argues that one should distinguish between two kinds of social constructionism: political constructionism (such as the kind defended by Sally Haslanger in Chapters 1 and 5) and cultural constructionism, which he defends. While he shows why it is understandable that political constructionism is sometimes taken to be the default position among social constructionists, he argues that political constructionism misses the significance of the cultural aspect of race in the present and fails to recognize the possibility of races existing past the end of racism.

Jeffers’s Reply to Glasgow, Haslanger, and Spencer

What Is Race? ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 176-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Glasgow ◽  
Sally Haslanger ◽  
Chike Jeffers ◽  
Quayshawn Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Default Position

Chike Jeffers argues in this chapter that social constructionism about race is a preferable position to non-biological essentialism about race (such as the kind defended by Quayshawn Spencer in Chapters 3 and 7) and anti-realism about race (such as the kind Joshua Glasgow defends in Chapters 4 and 8). He then argues that we should distinguish between two kinds of social constructionism: political constructionism (such as the kind defended by Sally Haslanger in Chapters 1 and 5) and cultural constructionism, which he defends. While he shows why it is understandable that political constructionism is sometimes taken to be the default position among social constructionists, he argues that political constructionism misses the significance of the cultural aspect of race in the present and fails to recognize the possibility of races existing past the end of racism.

Social Constructionism

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Lock ◽  
Tom Strong
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism

Constructing “Social Constructionism”

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-458
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism

Anxiety and informal education (cross-cultural aspect)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Kolodych ◽  
◽  
Katerina Milutina ◽  
Vsevolod Zelenin ◽  
Tetiana Andrushchenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Education ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Aspect

Family Influence on Business: Application of A Modified F-PEC Scale to Private Small Business In Vietnam

2013 ◽  
pp. 38-53
Author(s):  
Nam Vu Hoang ◽  
Anh Truong Tuan ◽  
Nghia Nguyen Ke
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Culture Dimensions ◽  
Business Application ◽  
Original Scale ◽  
Asian Context

This paper uncovers dimensions of family influence on private small business in Vietnam. Although the F-PEC scale, which comprises three subscales for power, experience and culture dimensions of family influence, has been validated in the literature, application of the scale in an Asian context, like Vietnam, may face challenges due to context differences. The study modified the original scale based on qualitative findings from five interviews with entrepreneurs and comments on the scale from business scholars. Data from a survey of 143 entrepreneurs were used for EFA, resulting in four factors. And CFA proves fitness of the measurement model of the four-factor structure to the data, in which two dimensions regarding the cultural aspect were confirmed.

Orwell's ‘Barbarous’ Patriotism

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-389
Author(s):  
John Glassford
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
Default Position

It is not always clear what the well-spring of patriotic feeling might be, and ‘patriots’ often have difficulty articulating the origins of their passion, though sources are seldom mysterious. In this article, it is suggested that George Orwell was one such example. With the Lacanian proposition that the unconscious is structured like a language as a default position, it is evident that Orwell's texts on nationalism, patriotism, and education clearly exhibit confusion. More specifically, it is when Orwell tries to disentangle ‘Englishness’ from ‘Scottishness’ that we see that despite his apparent sophistication as a journalist and propagandist, his account of Englishness is little more than patriarchal, nationalist chauvinism of the kind he claimed to despise. The attentive reader can see it in his texts, but he was blind to the contradiction.

Race on Both Sides of the Razor

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence D. Keel
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Genetic Basis ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Biological Differences

The proliferation of studies declaring that there is a genetic basis to health disparities and behavioral differences across the so-called races has encouraged the opponents of social constructionism to assert a victory for scientific progress over political correctness. I am not concerned in this essay with providing a response to critics who believe races are expressions of innate genetic or biological differences. Instead, I am interested in how genetic research on human differences has divided social constructionists over whether the race concept in science can be used for social justice and redressing embodied forms of discrimination. On one side, there is the position that race is an inherently flawed concept and that its continued use by scientists, medical professionals, and even social activists keeps alive the notion that it has a biological basis. On the other side of this debate are those who maintain a social constructionist position yet argue that not all instances of race in science stem from discriminatory politics or the desire to prove that humans belong to discrete biological units that can then be classified as superior or inferior. I would like to shift this debate away from the question of whether race is real and move instead toward thinking about the intellectual commitments necessary for science to expose past legacies of discrimination.

Model Kajian Pesantren: Studi Kritis terhadap Buku Dinamika Sistem Pendidikan Pesantren karya Mastuhu

1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-421
Author(s):  
Fauzi Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Education System ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Basic Study ◽  
Work Content ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Religious Aspect

As typical Indonesian education institute, pesantren with all its component, tradition, culture, and uniqueness have drawn attention many expert and researchers. Pesantren existence has given great contribution to enhancement of the quality of human life. Many role have been played by pesantren; in social, political, economics, cultural aspect; and of course religious aspect which its basic study. These realities in turn have invited the attention of many circles to continuously examine, checking, or studying dynamics, growth, and also existence of pesantren. Among the study result is Mastuhu’s research: Dynamics of System of Education Pesantren, a Study about Element and Value of Pesantren Educational System. With this masterpiece, Mastuhu trying to promote the form of study pesantren which do not merely touching manifest (visible) aspect, but trying to find the values which is consisted inside that manifest; so can found positive, negative, and plus-minus items from pesantren’s education which need and needn’t to be developed in national’s education system. Through this article, the writer will express the work content from a perspective of its study approach.

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