* Essentialism philosophy — reducing the experience of a category ( gender or race ) to the experience of one sub-group ( white women or African-Americans ).

Essentialism refers to the practice of generalizing about all women ( or any group ) as though they were essentially the same.

* Nader El-Bizri, " Avicenna and Essentialism ," Review of Metaphysics, Vol.

Essentialism ensures that the accumulated wisdom of our civilization as taught in the traditional academic disciplines is passed on from teacher to student.

Essentialism is a relatively conservative stance to education that strives to teach students the knowledge of our society and civilization through a core curriculum.

Essentialism is the most typically enacted philosophy in American classrooms today.

However, because Essentialism is largely teacher-centered, the role of the student is often called into question.

* Mahalingam, Ramaswami ; " Essentialism, Culture, and Power: Representations of Social Class " Journal of Social Issues, Vol.

Essentialism, in its broadest sense, is any philosophy that acknowledges the primacy of Essence.

Because Essentialism is a conceptual worldview that is not dependent on objective facts and measurements, it is not limited to empirical understanding or the objective way of looking at things.

Despite the metaphysical basis for the term, academics in science, aesthetics, heuristics, psychology, and gender-based sociological studies have advanced their causes under the banner of Essentialism.

Essentialism has emerged as an important concept in psychology, particularly developmental psychology.

Classical Essentialism claims that some things are wrong in an absolute sense, for example murder breaks a universal, objective and natural moral law and not merely an adventitious, socially or ethically constructed one.

Essentialism is used by some historians in listing essential cultural characteristics of a particular nation or culture.

* Sayer, Andrew ( August 1997 ) " Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and Beyond ", Sociological Review 45: 456.

* Oderberg, David S. ( 2007 ) Real Essentialism New York, Routledge.

Aristotelian Essentialism is concerned with properties which Marcus defines in the context of a modal framework.

Brian David Ellis has categorized more recent efforts as the " New Essentialism.

" Home Is a Matter of Blood, Time, and Genre: Essentialism in Burnett and McKinley.

*" How Not to Derive Essentialism From the Theory of Reference " ( 1979 ) Journal of Philosophy 76: 703-725.

This is indicative of the general population trends among the Jewish community in the Diaspora, but a focus on total population obscures growth trends in some denominations and communities, such as Haredi Judaism.

That's not what diseases are " Szasz cited drapetomania as an example behavior which many in society did not approve of, being labeled and widely cited as a ' disease ' and likewise with women who did not bow to men's will as having " hysteria " Psychiatry actively obscures the difference between ( mis ) behavior and disease, in its quest to help or harm parties to conflicts.

But such a reaction obscures the powerful efforts made in the past by both NAREB and its local boards for the maintenance of restrictive clauses and practices.

The fact that Christendom has periodically grafted instrumental music into the worship service probably obscures, for contemporary adherents, the long, general and conscientious teaching of a cappella.

But Sapir had since become influenced by a current of logical positivism, such as that of Bertrand Russel and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly through Ogden and Richards ' The Meaning of Meaning, from which he adopted the a view that natural language potentially obscures, rather than facilitates, the mind to perceive and describe the world as it really is.

The K-corona ( K for kontinuierlich, " continuous " in German ) is created by sunlight scattering off free electrons ; Doppler broadening of the reflected photospheric absorption lines completely obscures them, giving the spectral appearance of a continuum with no absorption lines.

This practice can add extra difficulty when debugging DNS issues, as it obscures the freshness of data, and / or what data comes from which cache.

The implications of these findings for the conservation of giraffes were summarised by David Brown, lead author of the study, who told BBC News: " Lumping all giraffes into one species obscures the reality that some kinds of giraffe are on the brink.

Most importantly the myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition insidiously obscures the real and significant differences between Judaism and Christianity.

Frequently, a halo is formed even around small objects, which obscures detail.

There is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Rome area from at least 14, 000 years ago, but the dense layer of much younger debris obscures Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites.

Latham remarks that this analysis by Harlan Ellison " obscures Ellison's own prominent role – and that of other professional authors and editors such as Judith Merril, Michael Moorcock, Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, and Donald A. Wollheim – in fomenting the conflict, …"

Although a person's footsteps remain a visible lifeline within a snow-covered landscape, snow cover is considered a general danger to hiking since the snow obscures landmarks and makes the landscape itself appear uniform.

Some Reformed Christians object to this view saying that if the father of the child is regenerate, then the soul of the child would also be regenerate which obscures the doctrine of original sin.

This traditional name continues as the standard in the United States, although it obscures the fact that Indians fought on both sides of the conflict.

Reich added that this emphasis obscures what he believed to be a basic psychological principle: that all worries and difficulties originate from unsatisfied sexual impulses.

Manifest content often masks or obscures latent content.

Desert varnish often obscures the identity of the underlying rock, and different rocks have varying abilities to accept and retain varnish.

Historian and theorist Bryan Palmer argues that gender studies current reliance on post-structuralism — with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the structures of oppression and struggles of resistance — obscures the origins, meanings, and consequences of historical events and processes, and he seeks to counter the current gender studies with an argument for the necessity to analyze lived experience and the structures of subordination and power.

Other effects that may impact the economy are: reduced visibility affecting aircraft and road transportation ; reduced sunlight reaching the surface ; increased cloud formation increasing the heat blanket effect ; high level dust sometimes obscures the sun over Florida ; effects on human health of breathing dust.

Although the ocean's surface obscures this fact, most of Chile lies at the edge of a profound precipice.

During the winter months, urban air obscures vision and negatively impacts human health.

This number does not include many Black Bermudians with White Portuguese ancestry, and obscures also that some of the Portuguese immigrants were Blacks from the Cape Verde Islands.

Croesus ' uneasy relations with the Greeks obscures the larger fact that he was the last bastion of the Ionian cities against the increasing Persian power in Anatolia.

Slow fading can be caused by events such as shadowing, where a large obstruction such as a hill or large building obscures the main signal path between the transmitter and the receiver.