Attempts by Jews to lump their co-religionists together as "international Jewry" are misleading; ironically, they mirror Hitler's failed attempts at racial categorization of Jews.Auschwitz was not a Jewish tragedy, it was a tragedy for all of Europe.
He has incorporated insights from psychology to formulate a new model of discrimination based on categorization, and he has used detailed historical archival research to understand the origins and spread of the Ku Klux Klan.
Several things are striking about this categorization.
These are organized into a fourfold categorization.
As regards group membership, he illustrates that the mere categorization of another as a member of a group need not be discriminatory, but depends upon an appropriate evaluation of the category from the viewpoint of the categorized individual.
In this way, the basis for categorization immediately grounds a kind of analogical or correlative thinking.
It is universally agreed that Locke thinks that we sort things into species and genera based on nominal essences and species and genera are a kind of human linguistic categorization process.
Interestingly, recent cross-cultural studies have shown that linguistic categorization of body parts can vary substantially.
A living being's capacities for sensory discrimination, feature detection, and perceptual categorization are all involved with the repertoires of action that being performs, either innately or through learning.
However, the normative force does then not derive from the categorization itself, but from the categorization in conjunction with the relevant norm (c.f Glüer&Wikforss 2009, 469).
This requires a nuanced categorization of theory-ladeness, from weak to strong.
