Essentialism

is transferred between two distantly related species, people are likely to believe that this process will cause characteristics typical of the source organism to emerge in the recipient” (Blancke). Despite being false, this idea of psychological essentialism can make intuitional sense to people, thus creating another potential emotional bias. For many who are not aware of how genetic modification works, the idea that taking genes from one species to another (something called transgenic) can…

Unpacking Essentialism Essentialism, at the most basic level, is the idea that things have essences that are unique to them and therefore can be defined. Essentialism, then, has been approached from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, biology, and psychology to discern the essence of various facets of identity to understand what makes us intrinsically human. However, in this massive philosophical quest to understand humanity, essentialism has also been tasked with understanding…

practice of defining “human behaviour, identities and bodies” in terms of the arbitrary physical differences we believe to exist between them. Within the discourse about “race,” there are two general theories about how “race” is to be defined: essentialism and social constructivism. The essentialist position typically involves the “naturalization” of race, or the attempt to ground the concept of race in biological “facts”, and…

The great debate, this story tells a good example between Essentialism vs. Dominance. When reading this passage the main point to this story between essentialism vs. dominance are essentialist theorist as it say in paragraph 4.” Men communicates to solve problems, where women communicates to establish emotional connections. Also women find intimacy through conversations, and men find it through actions”. This passage is a wonderful example on how and woman and man’s brain functions. Stroker put…

Biological essentialism is an ineffective method to studying sexuality and gendered relationships because it does not consider the social, familial, and politically imposed regulations and roles on the individual that have influenced his/her sexuality. The culture of poverty theory fails to examine the aspects of racism and prejudice while condemning an individual of an ethnic marginalized community for perpetuating poverty. Psychotherapeutic literature attempts to explain the actions of an…

The Human Race and Essentialism: An Illusion When people are born, they are not essentially good or evil at heart. People come into the world as objective creatures, and their environment influences what kind of person they grow up to be. People can be compared to a lightly painted canvas, and the environment is the brush that adds color- the good and the bad. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the idea of being good or evil at heart can be observed though the characters such as…

Sex: Essentialism and Constructionism.’ In this piece of writing, the author discusses the topic of sex from the point of views of the essentialism and the constructionism approaches. From ancient times to the present days, it has always been a difficult and controversial task to discuss and argue about sex due to the complexity of this topic. In this case, Jennifer Harding focused on these two perceptions and on the way that these came up with their judgments. On one side, essentialism…

My philosophy of education is comprehensive, and I concur with various aspects of Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism, and Social Reconstructionism. Essentialism is the philosophy I am most familiar with and it has had a profound impact on me. Perennialism is also a philosophy that has had significant influence on my beliefs. Progressive and Social Constructionism also contribute certain ideals to my educational philosophy. Although I do not agree with each aspect of these curriculum…

Progressivism b.) Essentialism c.) Prennialism d.) Reconstructionism (Pg.282-285 and video) Reasoning: Followers of the progressivism philosophy see themselves as student guides. They believe in teaching children to problem solve for the future. In order to get students invested in the…

the teacher has thoroughly examined his/her educational views, they have generated their educational philosophy. There are five main philosophies of education, two of which are essentialism and existentialism (Parkay, 2015, 123). Essentialism is a philosophy with an overall goal of educating children on the…