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The Sorting of Humanity
Schemata and Practices of Human Differentiation- Authors:
- Series:
- Culture & Theory, Volume 303
- Publisher:
- 2026
Summary
Human differentiation encompasses human classification and categorization processes that we encounter on a daily basis. Klaus Behnam Shad offers a new framework of human differentiation that emphasizes social complexity and intersectionality. Uniquely integrating systems theory with political, psychological, and biological anthropology, this systemic-anthropological approach firmly rejects culturalizing, moralizing, and ideologizing stances that claim a supposed superiority. This provides valuable insights into group-based differentiation processes that would otherwise remain inscrutable.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2026
- Copyright Year
- 2026
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-7613-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-7613-0
- Publisher
- transcript, Bielefeld
- Series
- Culture & Theory
- Volume
- 303
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 367
- Product Type
- Monograph
Table of contents
ChapterPages
- FrontmatterPages 1 - 7 Download chapter (PDF)
- 1 IntroductionPages 9 - 22 Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Sociocybernetics: Foundations of Systems TheoryPages 23 - 71 Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Evolutionary‐Anthropological Foundations of Human DifferentiationPages 73 - 94 Download chapter (PDF)
- 4 Group‐Based BehaviorPages 95 - 110 Download chapter (PDF)
- 5 Neurobiological Foundations: Mechanisms of Reward and PunishmentPages 111 - 118 Download chapter (PDF)
- 6 Schemata of DifferentiationPages 119 - 157 Download chapter (PDF)
- 7 Macrosocial Anthropological ConstantsPages 159 - 164 Download chapter (PDF)
- 8 Cultural CodesPages 165 - 202 Download chapter (PDF)
- 9 Two Regimes of Orders of DifferencePages 203 - 265 Download chapter (PDF)
- 10 Global Asymmetries: Impacts on Human DifferentiationPages 267 - 308 Download chapter (PDF)
- 11 Diversity as Ideology? Challenges and Contradictions of Social IntegrationPages 309 - 316 Download chapter (PDF)
- 12 ConclusionPages 317 - 325 Download chapter (PDF)
- 13 BibliographyPages 327 - 365 Download chapter (PDF)




