Race, Racism, and Darwinism

Jeynes, William H.

doi:10.1177/0013124510380723

Cited by 16 publications

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“…A racially based interpretation of society had been a central theme since the eighteenth century (Sebastiani 2013), and not until the midtwentieth century had theories of social development been progressively 'de-biologicised' (Mazrui 1968) and rejected in the contemporary debate. Various strands of literature highlight how the belief in superior and inferior races might have fitted the ontological premises of scholars who more or less intentionally rationalised their countries' dominance over new areas of the world (Popkin 1973;Hunter 2002;Jeynes 2011). Howeever, racebased interpretation of social phenomena was also in tune with the epistemological stances of modern-age mainstream social sciences, particularly those of positivism.…”

Section: Mosca and The Critique Of 'Nations' And 'Races' As Explanatory Variablesmentioning

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Did Elitists Really Believe in Social Laws? Some Epistemological Challenges in the Work of Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto

Giulio

2021

Topoi

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The epistemological standards of contemporary social sciences refute ‘functional’ and ‘law-like’ explanations, whereas mechanism-based causal explanations have become widely accepted in various fields of inquiry. The paper supports the hypothesis that authors Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca, despite their deference to positivist epistemology, significantly anticipated these developments. Indeed, with their emphasis on history, contexts and agents, elitists ushered into the debate of their time some arguments that realist epistemology fully developed, emphasising the role of context-specific and, often, not directly observable explanatory features. To illustrate the ante litteram epistemological realism of elitist thinkers, the paper reconstructs the positions of Mosca and Pareto concerning two major themes of that time, in which elitists challenged the mainstream ideas and values of most of their peers with epistemological arguments that refuse a linear notion of causality.

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Section: Mosca and The Critique Of 'Nations' And 'Races' As Explanatory Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Did Elitists Really Believe in Social Laws? Some Epistemological Challenges in the Work of Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto

Giulio

2021

Topoi

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“…Some scholars have pointed to the very strong influence of the idea on nineteenth-century and later education, in which the role of selection was magnified based on this paradigm. Students became competitors in a "natural" struggle in which the best-adapted won (Jeynes 2010). Of course, such a mode of thinking did not in any way take into account key social factors in the shaping of predispositions and also minimised care or aid for weaker persons, the disabled, or the marginalised.…”

Section: /// On the Relations Between Sociology And Biology In Early mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Change in William I. Thomas’s View of Biology

Remisiewicz

2018

SRZ

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In this article the author shows how the exploding role of biology in William Thomas’s sociology and social psychology has changed. Since the beginning of his career, this researcher addressed numerous topics that involved both biological and social factors – he commented on the nature of gender, race, instincts, prejudice and evolution. His departure point was biologism, which proclaimed that innate predispositions are a variable independent of social processes. In the following years, Thomas changed his beliefs, recognising that it was culture and society that left its mark on physiological and psychological development. The changes in Thomas’s reasoning are described by the author against the background of past and present views on the relationship between society and the brain, claiming that his late views could resonate with today’s approaches.

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“…More specifi cally, Spencer was critiqued for his arguments founded on Darwin's theory of evolution to justify racial and gender hierarchy (Paxton 1991, Gondermann 2007, Jeynes 2010. A contemporary school in feminist theorising argues that race, class, and gender are not separable identities but mutually structure our thinking and our social conduct (Crenshaw 1989, Hill Collins 1991, Staunaes 2003, McCall 2005, Kóczé 2009.…”

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Spencerian influence on the early moral philosophy of Ákos Pauler regarding racial and gender inequality

Szamosi

2018

Hstud

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In this paper I argue that the early moral philosophy of Ákos Pauler was informed by eugenic and racial hygienic theories of his age. Perhaps one of the key social theorists of his time was the British philosopher Herbert Spencer who arguably had an infl uence on the moral theories of Pauler as well. Pauler became an infl uential theoretician in Hungary during the interwar period. His ideological commitments to Christinity and national values made him favorable to the authoritarian politics of the 1920s and 30s. His signifi cance lasted until the end of the 1940s; during the Socialist period from 1948 to 1989 Pauler's heritage was played down because of the idological divide between the two political eras. However, after the transition, the works of Pauler were rediscovered and my study contributes to this strand of research from an intersectional perspective. In this paper I will analyze how conceptulizations of race and gender structured their moral theories in which the responsibility of women was understood in terms of their reproductive contribution to their country's racial future. I claim that Pauler's early moral philosophy rests on racially informed principles that justify gender subordination. 1

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Race, Racism, and Darwinism

Cited by 16 publications

References 31 publications

Did Elitists Really Believe in Social Laws? Some Epistemological Challenges in the Work of Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto

Did Elitists Really Believe in Social Laws? Some Epistemological Challenges in the Work of Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto

The Change in William I. Thomas’s View of Biology

Spencerian influence on the early moral philosophy of Ákos Pauler regarding racial and gender inequality

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