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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Social categories"”.
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The Motivated Creation and Use of Social Categories
Social categorization is often framed as the antecedent to stereotyping, with perceivers rationally sorting the social world on the basis of perceptually salient categories before applying biased beliefs about those categories. Here, I instead suggest that both the construction and use of social …
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Encoding Flexibility of Social Categories in Impression Formation
<p>Social categories facilitate cognitive processing because they activate expectations of behavior and other associated knowledge. Whereas most research has focused on the role of stereotypes in social perception, the present research investigated the differential processing associated with traits …
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Psychological Essentialism in context: The influence of socio-cultural context and self-identity on essentialising social categories
… some earlier work on essentialist beliefs about social categories, and supported previous findings about the dimensions of Natural Kind and Entitativity that underlie the concept of essentialism in the social world (Haslam, Rothschild, & Ernst 2000, which will be subsequently referenced as Haslam …
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Prototypicality and the impossibility of personhood
… In this work, we examine how conceptions of social categories (race and gender) are constructed as a function of their distance from socially and morally valued exemplars. In Study 1, we examine how prototypical conceptions of race, gender, and dehumanization inform disparities in pain …
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Time Is Money: The Social Consequences of Economic Change in Seretunin, Kenya
… deals with the emergence of class, a relation of social categories based in differential access to the means of production, in Seretunin, a Tugen community in the Baringo District of Kenya.
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Investigating Kurdish Women’s Experiences With Education in Kurdistan With Respect to Oppression
… feminist lens, which highlighted the unique social categories in which Kurdish women find themselves. The study found that the women’s lived experiences were determined by the intersections of gender, ethnicity, religion, location, SES, and age, among other social categories. Such categories …
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Determining Deviance: An Examination of Stress and Antisocial Coping among College Undergraduates
… unique types of strain vary by gender and other social categories. Data were collected by administering an 87-item survey to a sample of approximately 820 college undergraduates at a medium-sized university located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Linear and logistic regression …
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‘Paradigmatic workers’: sociologies of gender, class and ethnicity in the labour experiences of Albanian and ethnic Greek Albanian women cleaners at two Greek public hospitals
… and class, this study illustrates how different social categories constitute multiple points of vulnerability. The study emphasises also the processes in which the participants become embodied subjects, embedded in wider labour and social structures of inequality. Highlighting how different …
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Any Bodies' Protest Novel: Challenging the Politics of Canon Formation in the works of Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin
… structures . Facets of the author' s assigned social categories (African imerican, woman, queer) are read within a greater historical context to create stability, meaning, continuity, and mass-identification where it may or may not actually exist. However, a thorough examination of the …
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IN THE SOULS OF ALL OF US: MASCULINITY, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE DISCOURSE OF LYNCHING IN AMERICA
… paper is an exploration of the ways in which the social categories of gender, race, and religion intersected in the development and perpetuation of the discourse of lynching, particularly as this discourse relates to the era of spectacle lynching (late 1880s to early 1930s). After offering an …
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Children's Use of Race in Drawing Inferences Based on Their Understanding of Race Constancy
… inferences children made relative to other social categories such as age or sex. The results indicated that children who had a better understanding of race constancy were also more likely to use race as a means of drawing inductive inferences. These findings support a developmental …
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Africans in Cape Town : the origins and development of state policy and popular resistance to 1936
… the thesis describes and analyses complex social problems and political struggles which originated and developed in the period before 1936. By emphasizing the material and political dimensions, as well as the class interests and social categories involved in this uneven process of struggle, …
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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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Social Construction and the Possibility of Emancipation
… objectives. First, I attempt to clarify what social construction amounts to in contemporary analytic philosophy. Research on the social construction of social categories has done some work to delineate and clarify varieties of social constructionist projects, as well as varieties of social …
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Effects of Social Category and Value Dissimilarity in Teams: The Role of Relational and Collective Identification
This dissertation draws from social identity theory and self-categorization theory to examine the relationship between team members' social category dissimilarity in their team in terms of nation and race/ethnic origin and their satisfaction and learning in a team. It is argued that these relations …
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The credibility of news in Saudi Arabia : a comparative study of print newspapers with their online counterparts and exclusively online newspapers among Saudis
… the application of framework derived from Social Identity Theory and the concepts of media credibility and reliance in order to answer the project's research questions. Quantitative research was based on a questionnaire aimed at gathering evidence to ascertain how personal characteristics …
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The Gender Confidence Gap: A Life Course and Intersectional Approach
… patterns of the gap across the life course and social categories of race to test theories of the gap. I adopt an intersectional and life course approach to test nature versus nurture theories of the gap. Analyzing data from the three-wave MIDUS, I provide evidence that the gap remains consistent …
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Majority Influence in Infancy
… useful insights into the role that context and social cues play in guiding infants' attention. By introducing an element of ambiguity (using boxes rather than novel toys) and adding cues to boost majority salience, Chapter 3 examined whether 12- and 19-month-old infants' attention to a novel …
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Does anyone here speak tashelhait? Perspectives on environment, identity and social change in south Morocco
… and the West? In this thesis I interrogate the social categories of Black Moroccans and the complexities of race and racism that are hidden when Morocco is simply defined as Arab. Through analysing the oasis community of Akka I explore the complex variables involved in identity formation …
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