ESSENTIALISM
- The view that all children should be taught on traditional lines the ideas and methods regarded as essential to the prevalent culture
- a belief that the variation of nature can be reduced to a limited number of basic classes [n -S]
- A belief that things have a set of characteristics that make them what they are, and that the task of science and philosophy is their discovery and expression; the doctrine that essence is prior to existence
- The view that categories of people, such as women and men, or heterosexuals and homosexuals, or members of ethnic groups, have intrinsically different and characteristic natures or dispositions
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