SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fredrik Barth, Transactionalism, Instrumentalism
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Transactionalism: every decision that we make as social actors has a cost and benefit. Instrumentalism: employ our identities, sense of self, ethnicity as a tool. Nature of boundaries, their subjectivity and idea of relationship as being central and important. Degrees of ethnic incorporation: reminder than incorporation (ethnic distinctiveness) = opposite of assimilated, implication is that those groups which are highly incorporated are less assimilated, less incorporated = more assimilated. Don handelman(1977): the organization of ethnicity article: follows up barth"s insight, degrees of ethnic incorporation, different ethnic groups = different internal features and organizations. X: adding features, not behaviors, only the most incorporated kind of ethnic groups have a territory. Smith and handelmann, different approaches: smith: everyone has a place, comes from somewhere, associate with a territory somehow, handelmann: control/ claim to control a territory, even if it doesn"t exist. 3 interpretations: developmental framework progression from one type to the next; a.
