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 social
    is relational and contectual
    is socially constructed
    requires active engagement (identify with someone)
    requires awareness and choice
    structure (ascribed identity)
    agency (chosen identity)
    no perfect fit between how we see ourselves and how others ee us
    symbols and representation are important in sharing identities
    differences are the basis for identification
    people can have multiple at the same time
    it is rather a process than fixed
    it can change over time
  • banton: race and ethnicity

    race: negative group categorisation
    ethnicity: 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.

     

  • critique on park (chicago school)

    simplicity: rural versus urban
    egalitarianis: rural
    inevitable 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 colonies
    objective approach
    ethnicity is..
    - identifiable difference
    - independent variable
    - influenced by structure
    - cannot be chosen
    the only thing groups had in common was the political and economical system
    plural 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 constructen
    ethnicity 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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