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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Essentialism"”.
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Refuge and Ecofeminism: The Possibility of a Strategic Essentialism
… in a self-scrutiny that hinges on the issue of essentialism, have pivoted their critical attention to a defense of their field. The first part of this study offers a proposal as to how ecofeminists might revive the field from its creative stasis: locating the essentialist/constructivist debate …
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The Relationship Between Essentialism, Religious Beliefs, and Views of Change
<p>In this study, the relationship between essentialism, religious beliefs, and views of change was investigated. Participants were given surveys containing three sets of items and a demographic questionnaire. Item sets included the Intrinsic/Extrinsic-Revised Scale of Religiosity, the Essentialist …
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The Acoustics of Identity: Linguistic Passports Beyond Empire and Essentialism
"On the basis of evidence from the case studies, the author argues: (1) Standard American English (SAE) is not neutral, but rather clearly associated with a professional, educated, ""white,"" US-American, middle class experience; (2) Even more so than grammatical knowledge, the mastery of an accent …
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Aristotle's Teleological Essentialism in Parts of Animals I.1
… and discussion of Aristotle's teleological essentialism as presented by him in Parts of Animals, Book I, Chapter 1. The essay demonstrates that in PA I.1 Aristotle establishes teleological essentialism as the principal point of reference for the enquiry and expostion of the structure and …
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'I Wanna Rock:' A Critique of Gender Essentialism in Metal Music Scholarship
… of the women involved. As a result, unification essentialism (uniessentialism) should be the working assumption of MMS in order to avoid damaging the autonomy of women. Protecting autonomy requires more than just acknowledging any problems that exist, but rather I argue, through the use of Carol …
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Psychological Essentialism in context: The influence of socio-cultural context and self-identity on essentialising social categories
… and Entitativity that underlie the concept of essentialism in the social world (Haslam, Rothschild, & Ernst 2000, which will be subsequently referenced as Haslam et al., 2000). Additionally, Study 1’s results raised the hypothesis that cultural contexts may determine different perceptions of …
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Theological Essentialism at the Enlightenment: The Doctrine of Fundamental Articles of the Faith in Daniel Waterland (1683-1740)
… critical accounts of contemporary theological essentialism are for the first time critically engaged and confirmed as largely historically accurate. The thesis therefore addresses what was yet an unresolved historiographical tension in Waterland due to his polemical tendency to leave texts of …
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Sadra and Hegel on the Relationship between Essence/Existence and Subject/Object
… in Hegel. Sadra's break with the metaphysical essentialism of both Greek philosophy and Arabic philosophy results in the moment of Absolute Existentialism. This moment is not explicitly mentioned by Hegel-- neither in the historical development of the Philosophical Idea in the Lectures on The …
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The development of essentialist reasoning about religion categories in Northern Ireland
Social essentialism refers to the overarching assumption that members of certain social categories share a common, objective underlying reality or essence. The belief in a category essence can lead individuals to view members of particular social categories as more similar to each other than they …
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Essential properties: analysis and extension
… Chapter six critically examines Wiggins’ sortal essentialism, the position that objects are essentially instances of their sorts. After rendering Wiggins’ essentialist argument, I demonstrate that it is either inconclusive or question begging. As such, there is no reason to accept sortal …
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Treading the (corporate) board. A critical analysis of organisational diversity discourse
… thinking; the second is to examine whether essentialism can be analysed as a form of identity thinking; and the third is to assess whether and in what ways that analysis can contribute to feminist organisation studies and critical diversity scholarship. To achieve those aims, I carried out a …
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Exploring Social Identity Threat and Safety Cues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Cisgender Women in OB/GYN Care
… of two heterosexist cultures (i.e., gender essentialism and pronatalism) as well as two potentially identity-safe alternatives (i.e., gender diversity and reproductive/sexual autonomy) on the identity threat and health care engagement experiences of LGBPQ-CW in OB/GYN care.</p> <p>In Study 1 …
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Essentializing Race: Its Implication to Social Categorization and Racial Perception
… and traits. Previous research that examined essentialism and intergroup perceptions yielded mixed findings. Whereas some studies showed that believing in fixed and immutable group characteristics were associated with negative intergroup perceptions, these associations were not consistently …
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A Critique of Reductive Accounts of the Source of Necessity
… of the source of necessity (Modal Realism and Essentialism). I argue that both of these accounts of the source of necessity are problematic. Importantly, the major problem with Essentialism is that it does not provide us with a way to account for the necessary features of alien possible beings, …
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Self-Reclamation through Death: Attaining Creoleness in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother and In Praise of Creoleness by Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant
… thereby constructing a counterpoint to racial essentialism. Both texts investigate and celebrate elements of identity that they uphold as more profound. The novel’s protagonist Xuela and the essay, published eight years apart, mirror one another in their attention to key elements of …
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A Study of the Adequacy of Post Functional Definitions of Art
… and from there, investigate various accounts of essentialism and anti-essentialism about art. I conclude that none of the definitions of art so far proposed are adequate. However, I argue that we do not in fact need a definition of art. Theories of art are potentially of considerably more use …
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Naming without necessity
… metaphysics – that is, a nontrivial version of essentialism – found in Kripke, but which effectively avoids all of the standard criticisms. With my version of descriptivism in place, I present what I take to be the most reasonable version of metaphysical essentialism, positing only what I call …
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Gambling against Rawls
… By exploring the theoretical debates between essentialism and anti-essentialism, it further argues that it is unlikely that the veil of ignorance would be able to screen out those differences. It then employs theories of identity and difference in the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Lyotard in …
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