SOC101Y1 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
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Ethnicity: objective definitions of ethnicity assume ethnic groups exist because of people"s social attachment, subjective approaches to ethnicity focus on process of ethnic identification, ethnicity is possessed because of differences in language, culture, customs, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity is transactional process, ethnic groups made up of people who identify themselves as, ethnicity is self defined and reflects shared we feeling within collectivity whose symbolic belonging to same ancestral or cultural group components can vary over time and place, most ethnic categories are recent historical creations english before were celts, saxons, normans etc and. Germans did not exist: canadians are now largest ethnic group in canada second is english then french, scottish, irish, why say ethnic roots are canadian, unaware or uninterested in our roots, political act to express dissatisfaction with multiculturalism policies, the group with whom we identify, the ethnic english canadian is a new social creation.
