SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Urban Culture, Identity Politics, Peter Worsley
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Abner critical on barth: does not focus on economics, social contrast. Culture very much like the cayman islands. 2 main groups (+ indigenous: afro-guyanese freed from slave trade. Indo-guyanese people after slavery was outlawed from india. 3 levels of ethnic interactions (idea of transactionalism/instrumentalism/situationalism: macro, urban african, rural indian population, dominated by afro-guyanese, middle, level of action in which each group has numerous goal, oriented ethnically-based organisations. Indo-guyanese separate religions multiple (muslim, christian, etc. : afro-guyanese predominantly christians, overcommunication occurs, micro. Interaction b/w afro & indo-guyanese: distinction is downplayed, under communication occurs. Group actions causes ethnic identity to be activated. Ethnicity & class (has some connection to social status) There are many different factors involved in discerning one"s social rank/social class. All play a role in determining social class. 3 ways in which ethnicity & class intersect: overlapping, ethnicity & class are identical, one-to-one overlapping, e. g.
