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Mahalingam, Ramaswami – Human Development, 2007
This paper synthesizes two perspectives on essentialism: cognitive and social. The cognitive essentialist perspective argues that our bias to appeal to the psychological belief that categories have innate essences enables us to make inferences about social categories such as race, caste, and gender. The social essentialist perspective argues that…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Sociology, Inferences, Child Development