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Using the Race Model Inequality to Quantify Behavioral Multisensory Integration Effects
Published on: May 10, 2019
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Relocating race: introdution
Summary
This study revisits foundational ideas in the history of race science. By examining race across different disciplines, locations, and eras, it challenges established views on race science
Area of Science:
- History of Science
- Sociology of Race
- Critical Race Theory
Background:
- Revisiting Nancy Stepan's seminal work, "The Idea of Race in Science" (1982).
- Stepan's original work primarily analyzed metropolitan scientists between 1800-1960.
- This collection expands the scope beyond Stepan's focus.
Observation:
- Examines the concept of race through the lenses of discipline, geography, and historical period.
- Highlights the variability of "racial" thinking across diverse contexts.
- Seeks to "make strange" conventional understandings of race science.
Findings:
- Race science manifested differently across various disciplines, geographical locations, and historical periods.
- Relocating race reveals diverse conditions that enabled its scientific conceptualization.
- Challenges the monolithic view of historical race science.
Implications:
- Provides a more nuanced understanding of the historical development of race science.
- Encourages critical re-evaluation of the assumptions underlying past and present race concepts.
- Offers new perspectives for studying the social construction of race in scientific discourse.
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