SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Fredrik Barth, Phenotype
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What are the differences and commonalties between ethnicity and race. One journal entry can answer both of the current class" question but it"ll only count as one. Often it"s others who tells us who we are. One of the first sociologists to explore how ethnicity was socially constructed. Argued that ethnicity involved both self-ascription and the ascription of others. John farley (2000) defines an ethnic group as a group of people who are generally (see ppt) The perception of a shared history of some sort. Shared symbols of peoplehood (kinship patterns, geographical concentration, religious affiliation, language, and physical differences) Self consciousness ( ethnic groups see themselves as distinct but the source for this self consciousness is often labels used by others) Race: race was originally thought of as genetically distinct subpopulation of a given species. Once it"s built up it"s just set into your system and how society is it"s hard to let go of it.
