{"id":37164,"date":"2014-08-27T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37164"},"modified":"2014-08-27T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:46:22","slug":"everyone-knows-its-a-social-construct-contemporary-science-and-the-nature-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37164","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEveryone Knows It&#8217;s a Social Construct\u201d: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/00380237.2007.10571319\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cEveryone Knows It&#8217;s a Social Construct\u201d: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/usfo20\" target=\"_blank\">Sociological Focus<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/usfo20\/40\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 40, Issue 4, 2007<\/a><br \/>\npages 436-454<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/00380237.2007.10571319\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/00380237.2007.10571319<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/annmorning\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ann Morning<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not biologically anchored. I investigate contemporary scientific thinking about race by interviewing more than 40 biologists and anthropologists at four northeastern universities. Contrary to sociologists&#8217; expectations, racial constructionism is revealed to be a minority viewpoint. Moreover, this research shows that the usual \u201cconstructionist\u201d versus \u201cessentialist\u201d dichotomy a blunt tool for characterizing the debate about race; a third platform\u2014\u201cantiessentialism\u201d\u2014must be taken into account. Recognizing antiessentialist discourse calls for a reevaluation of prior research that emphasizes socioeconomic status and professional affiliation as influences on interviewees&#8217; concepts of race; this project demonstrates that such tectors do little to distinguish essentialist from antiessentialist veiwpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/00380237.2007.10571319\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEveryone Knows It&#8217;s a Social Construct\u201d: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race Sociological Focus Volume 40, Issue 4, 2007 pages 436-454 DOI: 10.1080\/00380237.2007.10571319 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,394],"tags":[740,562,17808],"class_list":["post-37164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-ann-j-morning","tag-ann-morning","tag-sociological-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}