{"id":5987,"date":"2010-03-14T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2010-03-14T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T19:24:01","slug":"race-and-reification-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5987","title":{"rendered":"Race and Reification in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.fas.nyu.edu\/docs\/IO\/229\/DusterScience205.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Race and Reification in Science<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Science Magazine<br \/>\nVolume 307<br \/>\n2005-02-18<br \/>\npages 1050-1051<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/troyduster\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Duster<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_North_Whitehead\" target=\"_blank\">Alfred North Whitehead<\/a> warned many years ago about \u201cthe fallacy of misplaced concreteness\u201d (1), by which he meant the tendency to assume that categories of thought coincide with the obdurate character of the empirical world. If we think of a shoe as \u201creally a shoe,\u201d then we are not likely to use it as a hammer (when no hammer is around). Whitehead\u2019s insight about misplaced concreteness is also known as the fallacy of reification. Recent research in medicine and genetics makes it even more crucial to resist actively the temptation to deploy racial categories as if immutable in nature and society&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.fas.nyu.edu\/docs\/IO\/229\/DusterScience205.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race and Reification in Science Science Magazine Volume 307 2005-02-18 pages 1050-1051 Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology New York University Alfred North Whitehead warned many years ago about \u201cthe fallacy of misplaced concreteness\u201d (1), by which he meant the tendency to assume that categories of thought coincide with the obdurate character of the empirical world. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,394],"tags":[2471,2469],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-science-magazine","tag-troy-duster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","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=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}