Whether we think about them or not, the people and institutions around us impact every aspect of our lives. In our workplaces, families, churches, or simply walking down the street every day, there are hidden influences on our behavior and outcomes. Brian Lowery is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a social psychologist by training. Join Brian for Know What You See, where he talks to people from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives about their experiences with the social forces framing our world.
Whether we think about them or not, the people and institutions around us impact every aspect of our lives. In our workplaces, families, churches, or simply walking down the street every day, there are hidden influences on our behavior and outcomes. Brian Lowery is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a social psychologist by training. Join Brian for Know What You See, where he talks to people from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives about their experiences with the social forces framing our world.
Race and gender are thought by many to be immutable features of our biology. In some places and spaces, we see significant challenges to this way of thinking about gender, but the biological view of race has proved more durable. How do we understand racial identity from individual and community perspectives? What’s changing about how we define race and how that shapes our interactions with the world around us?
Our guest:
Rebecca Tuvel: Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Rhodes College.