A social category is a collection of people who share an important characteristic—Canadians, evangelical Christians, Olympic medalists, college graduates, gun owners, guitar players. You get the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The aim of this article is to explore the various ways in which people represent social groups. The author shows that a prominent role in such ...

London”s mayor, Boris Johnson, drew criticism late last year for saying that economic inequality can be attributed, in part, to IQ. “I am afraid that (the) violent economic centrifuge is operating on ...

The theory of psychological essentialism provides an account of how and why some social groups are represented as if they possessed an inhering, immutable and group-defining 'essence'. Whilst much of ...