The Science of Diversity

Released on by Mona Sue Weissmark
preview-18

  • The Science of Diversity Book Detail

  • Author : Mona Sue Weissmark
  • Release Date : 2020
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Genre : Psychology
  • Pages : 441
  • ISBN 13 : 0190686340
  • File Size : 90,90 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Science of Diversity by Mona Sue Weissmark PDF Summary

Book Description: "Using a multidisciplinary approach, The Science of Diversity reveals the theories, principles, and paradigms that illuminate people's understanding of the issues surrounding human diversity, social equality, and justice. Noted psychologist and educator Dr. Mona Weissmark assembles a rich array of research from anthropology, biology, religious studies, and the social sciences to write a scholarly diorama of diversity. This book contextualizes diversity historically, tracing the evolution of ideas about "the other" and about "we" and "them" to various forms of social organization-from the "hunter-gather," face-to-face, shared resource model to the anomie of megacities. Moreover, it explicates the concept of diversity, analyzing its meaning over time, place, and polity-from ancient Greece to the time of Donald Trump, from biblical parables to United Nations pronouncements. Ultimately, drawing on the author's groundbreaking research work with the children of Nazis and the children of holocaust survivors, the book suggests that one potential antidote to ethnic strife lies in the pursuit of Immanuel Kant's mandate, sapere aude (dare to know), combined with the development of compassion"--

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Science of Diversity books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.