The Meaning of Heterogeneity: An Introduction

are situated in the web of interlocking power relations (author's emphasis). Calasanti demonstrates how comparative research, a technique often used to address "diversity," falls short of providing a complete picture, because the concepts used for such studies are often created using the dominant group's experience, and then comparing the "other" group's experience to that of the dominant group. Instead, she argues, concepts and theories should be developed, by keeping in mind from the beginning a range of socially situated human experiences, rather than just the "normal" or dominant group's experience. Calasanti concludes with a discussion of diversity at the international level.