New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities

<p>This volume presents new research in social ontology by focusing on questions related to the characteristics categories and conceptual methodologies surrounding social identities in general and specific social identities in particular.</p><p>The volume contains eight original essays plus a foreword written by Linda Martín Alcoff that engage with issues pertaining to a broad range of identities including class sexuality gender race ethnicity and religious identity. This collection is an <i>abrebocas </i>an <i>entry way</i> to theorizing about social identities in novel ways and the essays collected here point to specific modes of understanding and experiencing social identities that have not been given their due or that offer new approaches to well-worn topics.</p><p><i>New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities</i> will appeal to scholars and advanced students across several philosophical disciplines such as philosophy of race feminist philosophy social and political philosophy phenomenology epistemology and social ontology. Scholars in disciplines like psychology religious studies and other social sciences will also find new approaches to questions of social identity relevant to understanding the complexity of the social world.</p>