ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Symbolic Ethnicity, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Social Forces
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Reading ethnicities and multiculturalisms by j. n. nederveen pieterse (2004). To unpack ethnicity by means of a typology and taxonomy of ethnicities, and thus bring the sociology of ethnicity to the foreground and bring finesse and method into the discussion. Ethnicities arise from different ways of drawing group boundaries; what sets diverse notions of multiculturalism apart also derives from different ways of drawing group boundaries. Notions of identity, difference, and inter-group relations interact to produce diverse angles on how group boundaries come about and decompose. Neverdeen proposes three hypotheses: when politics is upfront we speak of political conflict. When politics is opaque we say ethnic conflict: majority politics are designated political and minority politics are termed. Ethnic, i. e. ethnicity is minority nationalism: nationalism refers to urban nationalism, while rural nationalism is often termed ethnicity. Example: chinese food eaten by chinese in a chinese restaurant overseas is food (a particular type of food, a regional food, etc.
