SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: System On A Chip, Ingroups And Outgroups, List Of Newspapers In Greece
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What is ethnicity: costume/dress, dance, customs/rituals, music, foods. Culture: a way to describe human behaviour, ways of life of a soc. gr / soc. and its products. Attributes of ethnic group"s identity: members recognize one another because of shared . Ethnicity or race: if race is an attribute used for ethnic gr. identi cation, should we elim. term race" from academic + colloquial use altogether, diff. answers depending on who you ask. Yes: race too messy + meaningless anyway: ethnocultural, visible minority. No: race is a source of strati cation whereas ethnicity is less so: race, race / identity. What are the origins of ethnic groups? (max weber) Weber"s contribution: the context: ethnicity as a primordial basis of identity, weber: Ethnicity / ethnic group > socially constructed. Group created the belief in shared peoplehood" (not other way around) Ethnic groups formed b/w desire to monopolize power and status.
