期刊名称：International Journal of Multicultural Education
电子版ISSN：1934-5267
出版年度：2016
卷号：18
期号：2
页码：107-124
语种：English
出版社：Eastern University
摘要：With advances in biotechnology come potential changes in how college students may understand the nature of identity. This study explores sensemaking around the biological underpinnings of proclaimed “social” identities (e.g., race, class, gender). Based on interviews with 34 undergraduate students recruited from two large, public, research universities in the United States, a conceptual model is offered to outline the general process of how students make sense of biological and/or social explanations of identity, including the role of controllability and essentialism. We discuss implications for multicultural education and teaching the “social construction” of identity in changing contexts.
