Facing the Consequences: Identifying the Limitations of How We Categorize People in Research and Policy

Creator

Cynthia Wallat
Carolyn Steele

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

July 1999

Abstract

Social policy researchers and policy rules and regulation writers have not taken advantage of advances in assessing ways in which social representations of ideas about people can convey alternative explanations of social life. During the past decade a growing number of scholars have considered how representational practices and the representations that are outcomes of such practices have value. Neglecting to consider representational practices has consequences including failure to mobilize and sustain alternative ideologies that reject narrow perspectives on families and communities. ...

Extent

15

Volume

7

Issue

21

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00133

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Recommended Citation

Wallat, Cynthia and Steele, Carolyn, "Facing the Consequences: Identifying the Limitations of How We Categorize People in Research and Policy" (1999). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 348.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/348