A textbook for college diversity courses, this book offers an overview of the wide diversity in our society, with a focus on fair treatment and respect for all people. Interacting comfortably with diverse individuals, in the community and work place, is emphasized. Topics include race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, culture, health, communication, social status, behavior, personality, physical ability, and sensory ability. Each chapter includes sample test questions and both individual and group exercises.
" But it is a story that needs telling. Human Diversity does so without sensationalism, drawing on the most authoritative scientific findings, celebrating both our many differences and our common humanity.
In other words, even if it were true that some populations were, for example, more intelligent than others, this fact should have no bearing on the ethical position of equality and human rights in equal measure to all humans.
This book lays out some of the basic problems of a biological theory of race, in particular the arbitrariness of most racial classifications based on biological differences between populations.
Investigates the two main theories of how and where humans evolved.
This introductory book provides a concise and accessible account of human diversity, of its causes and the ways in which anthropologists go about trying to make sense of it.
Human Diversity answers that question with a resounding 'No'. Using tools of population genetics, Richard Lewontin makes the case that biological differences are only a small part of what makes individuals unique-anyone, regardless of race, ...
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The new tenth edition of Kottak's best selling text for general anthropology continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective and a...
Can judgments of value transcend taste and cultural preference? Moral Value and Human Diversity offers a brief but highly comprehensive introduction to ethics and value theory that argues for positive answers in a pluralistic framework.
This book assesses the scientific value and merit of research on human genetic differencesâ€"including a collection of DNA samples that represents the whole of human genetic diversityâ€"and the ethical, organizational, and policy ...