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Children and adults are examples, respectively, of marked and unmarked social categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2026

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Will M. Bennis*
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Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czech Republic will.bennis@vse.cz
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Abstract

By failing to recognize that adulthood and childhood are just examples – the former of an unmarked social category inappropriately used to generalize about people – the latter of a marked social category commonly overlooked in theories about our species, Lew-Levy and Amir miss an opportunity to make an important observation about social-cultural diversity and what it means to be human.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 49 , 2026 , e227
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