株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ Culture, Identity, and Essentialism : Anthropological and Psychological Approaches.
商品詳細
Culture, Identity, and Essentialism : Anthropological and Psychological Approaches.
・ISBN 978-3-032-11917-9 hard EUR 49.99
￥13,361.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
| 著者・編者 | Wagner, Wolfgang / Moya, Cristina (eds.), |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences |
| 出版社 | (Springer, GW) |
| 出版年月 | 2026.04 |
| ページ数 | 330 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜766-1045 766-1211＞ |
解説
This Open Access book examines how people often treat social group membership as inherent, immutable, informative and even intergenerationally inherited. Such essentialism remains one of the more puzzling folk intuitions, at odds with social science maintaining that people become culturally competent group members through enculturation, and that norms can change how group boundaries are defined quite substantially. Essentialism also features prominently in much rhetoric that justifies intergroup hostility and in researchers' attempts to explain it. Nonetheless, social scientists have not reached a consensus about essentialism's causal role in intergroup relations.
In this Open Access book, contributors from a range of perspectives tackle fundamental questions in this field:
- Do humans share a tendency to essentialise groups?
- If so, where does this tendency come from?
- How is essentialism expressed in cognition, behavior, and institutions?
- What are its consequences for cooperation and social conflict?
Psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists weigh in on these questions in this volume, often using specific cultural contexts as case studies to elucidate both the particularities and common patterns in the ways essentialism does, or does not, work in the real world.