Summary: Ethnicity And Nationalism | 9780745330426 | Thomas Hylland Eriksen
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1 What is Ethnicity?
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social scientists: identity
involves a link between the personal and the socialis relational and contectualis socially constructedrequires active engagement (identify with someone)requires awareness and choicestructure (ascribed identity)agency (chosen identity)no perfect fit between how we see ourselves and how others ee ussymbols and representation are important in sharing identitiesdifferences are the basis for identificationpeople can have multiple at the same timeit is rather a process than fixedit can change over time -
banton: race and ethnicity
race: negative group categorisationethnicity: positive group identification -
ethnicity is wider than race
because it also deals with cultural differences -
analytical concepts versus native ones
etic to the analysts point of view, the scientist/researcher. These concepts are adopted by the larger society.
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critique on park (chicago school)
simplicity: rural versus urbanegalitarianis: ruralinevitable conformity: rural -
critique on the view as cultural units
- cultural uniqueness presupposes groups tend to be isolated- imply maintainence of ethnic boundaries is unproblematic -
theory of plural societies: furnivall and smith
wrote on coloniesobjective approachethnicity is..- identifiable difference- independent variable- influenced by structure- cannot be chosenthe only thing groups had in common was the political and economical systemplural societies are unstable because they lack a common will (smith)society is then viewd as a unit of disparate parts -
critique on social constructivism
then you only study people's perceptions of culture (subjective) and not their real actions -
relation ethnicity and identity
both are socially constructenethnicity is blood, birth, culture, place, language, etc. it is part of your identity -
gramsci - cultural hegemony
talks about the role of ideas concerning power.notion of cultural hegemony:minority take over the ideolofy and values and norms of the majority. Symbolic power (like education, etc). They internalize this unequal power distribution. this can be a reason why the people dd not unite for a recolution. consent in the subordinate structure!
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