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Culture, Identity, and Essentialism: Anthropological and Psychological Approaches

Culture, Identity, and Essentialism: Anthropological and Psychological Approaches

Wagner, Wolfgang
Moya, Cristina

Hardcover

Series: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences

AnthropologyGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3032119170
ISBN13: 9783032119179
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.49 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
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.

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