The destructive nature of the term race: Growing beyond a false paradigm
The destructive nature of the term race: Growing beyond a false paradigm
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DOI：
10.1002/j.1556-6676.1998.tb02543.x
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发表时间：
1998-06-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Wycoff, SM
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文献类型：
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作者：
Cameron, SC;Wycoff, SM
“种族”一词最初是基于一种民间分类系统，它被用来根据外貌对人进行分类，这往往会带来破坏性和有害的社会后果。鉴于许多国家和国际科学团体已经减少了使用种族一词来对人进行分类，现在是心理健康专业人员认真讨论种族一词的作用和评估其有用性的时候了。我们建议业界效仿联合国教科文组织（联合国教育、科学及文化组织，1950/1978年），采取措施对该术语的使用提出质疑，联合国教科文组织认为该术语暗示了生物学意义。鉴于缺乏支持将种族一词作为一个科学概念保留下来，以及人类学家和遗传学家对无种族立场的发展，现在是时候让心理健康专业人员更积极地解决这个术语的使用问题了。具体来说，尽管培训中的咨询师被教导使用种族一词来指代不同人群的文化方面，但我们认为这个词本身已经过时了。在我们看来，这个词，在不同程度上，有助于形成对不同群体的错误看法。咨询师在与客户、专业人士和系统一起工作时，会遇到这些错误的看法。
Originally based on a system of folk taxonomies, the term race has been used to group people by physical appearance, often with disruptive and harmful social consequences. Given that many national and international scientific groups have diminished their use of the term race in the classification of people, it is time for mental health professionals to seriously discuss the role and assess the usefulness of the term race. We recommend that the profession follow the lead of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1950/1978) in faking steps to question the use of the term, which UNESCO views as implying biological significance. In light of the lack of support to retain the term race as a scientific concept, and given the development of a no race position by anthropologists and geneticists, it is time far mental health professionals to become more active in addressing the use of this term. Specifically, although counselors in training are taught to use the term race to refer to cultural aspects of different groups of people, we believe the term itself is passe. In our opinion, the term, in varying degrees, contributes to the formation of false perceptions about various groups of people. These false perceptions are encountered by counselors when working with clients, professionals, and systems.