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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"Essentialist"”.
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Exploring the relationship between fusion with a cause and essentialist thinking
… stance toward the cause. This tendency for essentialist thinking leads strongly fused individuals to discriminate against people who hold opposing beliefs about the cause. To test these ideas, I conducted 6 studies. Two studies showed that fusion with a cause predicted the tendency to …
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The development of essentialist reasoning about religion categories in Northern Ireland
… context constrains the development of social essentialist reasoning; the most highly emphasised and socially meaningful dimensions stressed within a particular social or cultural context are usually the most strongly essentialised social dimensions. The present research is based on a case …
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Feminist judgments: interrogating Zimbabwean judgments using anti-essentialist feminist legal theory
… could have been decided differently from an anti-essentialist feminist perspective. The three cases cover the following topics: matrimonial property rights, child custody rights and abortion rights. This commentary is offered as part of the exercise by feminist scholars around the world to put …
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A general explanatory tendency underlies common assumptions about how the world works: an investigation of nominal fit and essentialist beliefs
… may also play a role in the development of essentialist beliefs. Overall, this work suggests that general inherent reasoning buttresses disparate beliefs about the way the world works. These findings highlight the value in investigating the ways in which abstract, higher-order judgments and …
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The Relationship Between Essentialism, Religious Beliefs, and Views of Change
… Scale of Religiosity, the Essentialist Belief Scales, and the Change Vignettes. Results indicated those with gradualist religious views were not more likely to endorse essentialist views when compared to those with conversionist views. Those who essentialized at high levels …
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"""Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick"": Humor and the subversive in three novels by Zora Neale Hurston"
… others call her fiction stereotypical and essentialist. Observing the workings of the recurrent humor in her works helps explode this critical binary opposition. Specifically, the carnivalesque and the heteroglossia often subvert essentialist notions of (Black) identity.
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Refuge and Ecofeminism: The Possibility of a Strategic Essentialism
… the field from its creative stasis: locating the essentialist/constructivist debate as the theoretical framework wherein essentialism attracts suspicion and ecofeminism has acquired its discrediting, I argue that ecofeminists should challenge the terms of the debate as tenuous, rather than help …
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Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek
… Their wager is that by shifting away from essentialist Marxism, and towards a post-Marxist theory of hegemony which they adapt from Gramsci, the analytic for overturning contemporary hegemony will take the form of a radical democratic politics. My contention is that in shifting away from …
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Women's Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement: The Dialectics of Gender and Activism
… activism and the importance of superseding essentialist constructions of gender.
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Psychological Essentialism in context: The influence of socio-cultural context and self-identity on essentialising social categories
… this thesis was to investigate some aspects of essentialist beliefs about other people. The empirical part of the thesis is constituted by four investigations. Study 1 and 2 built on some earlier work on essentialist beliefs about social categories, and supported previous findings about the …
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Team-teaching for inclusion: A critical analysis of disability discourse in Irish Post-Primary Schools
… that teachers relied disproportionately on essentialist and personal tragedy discourses to do so. This reliance limited their conceptualisations of team-teaching to a narrow set of normalising practices that required learners to accommodate to highly visible diminished identities and fit …
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The Development of Judgments and Beliefs about Homosexuality
… his/her sexual orientation, and finally, their essentialist beliefs about homosexuality (i.e., whether they believe sexual orientation is biologically or socially/environmentally determined) were explored. Results revealed age differences in the acceptability of same-sex relationships, with …
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Revisiting the queer : theory, literature and gay male studies
… mainly the social constructionist versus the essentialist debate.
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Early conceptions of national identity: causes and consequences
… identity as a category marker, they will hold an essentialist conception of nationality, believing that it is a biologically-based, stable, and inherent feature of their selves. However, as they age, this tendency will decline, and they will instead attribute nationality to more …
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'I Wanna Rock:' A Critique of Gender Essentialism in Metal Music Scholarship
… sexism within metal culture and the use of kind essentialist language serve to damage the autonomy 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 …
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Talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context
… methodologies thatchallenge individualist and essentialist accounts of these phenomena.Publications 1 and 2 address issues in employee resourcing and assessment,discussing strategic and psychometric perspectives and their limitations beforedeveloping social process and discourse perspectives …
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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs
… conditions that prompted the division, and essentialist othering, which implies the existence of an inherent trait that unavoidably pits one group against the other. I contend that these two grammars of othering reflect two different world-view paradigms persisting in the communities that …
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Making art to make identity : shifting perceptions of self amongst historically disadvantaged South African artists
… beyond previously racialised, hierarchised and essentialist constructs in a transforming New South Africa. Fieldwork research involved direct observation, working with artists on art projects, and interviews with visual artists and other arts practitioners in Cape Town, 1998-2001. Artworks are …
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Second Generation Immigrant Adaptation: Construction of a Hybrid Cultural Identity
… cultural pluralism, for their androcentric and essentialist tendencies. It was found that the women constructed a cultural hybrid identity, and using Homi Bhabha's notion of third space, I discuss the process of how this hybrid identity is constructed. A phenomenological approach, in which the …
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