POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hutu, Primordialism, Relative Deprivation
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A + b = a or b (whichever is the dominant one) A = b + c + d: characteristics of ethnicity, crawford young provides three features of ethnicity. 1st: ethnicity rests upon variable list of shared cultural attributes (language, ancestry, kinship ideologies, cultural practices, symbolic repertoires or modes of religious observation) 2nd: ethnicity is defined by an active consciousness of collective selfhood. It belongs to the realm of emotion: ethnicity is immutable, unchangeable, fixed. Ethnic mobilizations are motivated by expressive not instrumental needs. Conflict based on ethnicity is inevitable, persistence is a given: modernism/instrumentalism-nominalism. Ethnic identification is used to achieve specific goals. Ethnic groups are a product of modernity and more specifically the creation of modern elites for their own purposes. Ethnic identities are not more fundamental or powerful than other types of. Ethnicity is fluid, individuals have multiple identities, these identities shift identity according to context. People join ethnic movements when there is a pay-off to doing so.
