SOC210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intensify, White Flight, Panethnicity
Document Summary
Soc210: ethnicity in social organization lecture 3 (sept. 25) Past academic journals are up this year we have to cite the readings. The perception of a shared history of some sort. Shared symbols of peoplehood (kinship patterns, cultural practices, geographical concentration, religious affiliation, language) Self consciousness (ethnic groups see themselves as distinct but the source may come from others) They vary across space and change across time. i. e. german identity in north america. When they first came to n. a. , they held onto a distinct, german identity. This changed starting from wwi when a stigma became associated with being german. And after wwii, less people identified as german and it became unacceptable to hold a german american identity. Some germans changed their name: staring from the 1970s, there was resurgence in german ethnicity because the stigma weakened. In 1990s, germans had the largest ancestry group.
