SOC 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: English Nationalism, Cultural Relativism, Invented Tradition
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Community: a social, religious, occupational r other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists. Identity politics - extends majority rights to minority groups; some see it as social treatment; incudes exclusion and belonging. Identification expressed through sameness and difference: difference- a deviance from the standard. Discrimination works on hierarchy: stereotype works with hierarchy. Like us, only worse: construction of stereotypes =dominant group being powerful vs. the. Other : positioning of authority= a site of identification or a source of victimization. Cultural symbols, material contexts: group identities are shot through with ideology their mythological character shown through symbols. Collective identity and crisis: ex-nomination means to invest little time into their group as they are universal and more powerful, particularism vs universalism. Universalism- the particularism shuns other groups/individuals with different particularism.
