Racism, Culture and Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

More than culture: structural racism, intersectionality theory, and immigrant health.

Explanations for immigrant health outcomes often invoke culture through the use of the concept of acculturation. The over reliance on cultural explanations for immigrant health outcomes has been the topic of growing debate, with the critics' main concern being that such explanations obscure the impact of structural factors on immigrant health disparities. In this paper, we highlight the shortco...

Bibliography on ‘race’, ethnicity, culture and racism For registrants of the BPC Developed with the BPC Ethnicity, Culture and Racism Task Group

Interpreted Modernity Weber and Taylor on Values and Modernity

The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...