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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1970-06-01. It has received 4205 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social organization & Ethnic group.read more
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Rhythmic prototypes across cultures: A comparative study of tapping synchronization
TL;DR: Support is found for the classic assumption that 1:1 and 2:1 prototypes are widespread across cultures and for culture-dependent prototypes characterized by more complex ratios such as 3:2 and 4:3.
Race, Ethnicity and Culture
TL;DR: The authors identify how the terms race, ethnicity and culture are currently used in popular discourse and the significance of these usages; secondly, identify how each of these terms can best be defined in technical terms, such that they can be turned into more precise vehicles for sociological analysis; and thirdly explore the ways in which a more carefully constructed analytical vocabulary can enable us to gain a clearer grasp of just how a whole series of pressing contemporary problems have arisen and how they might realistically be resolved.
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Group Threat and Policy Change: The Spatial Dynamics of Prohibition Politics, 1890-1919.
TL;DR: By analyzing the adoption of county and state “dry laws” banning alcohol from 1890 to 1919, the authors show that prohibition victories were driven by the relative strength of supportive constituencies such as native whites and rural residents, vis-à-vis opponents such as Irish, Italian, or German immigrants or Catholics.
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Transnational Community and Its Ethnic Consequences: The Return Migration and the Transformation of Ethnicity of Japanese Peruvians
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the consequences of transnational community formation for immigrants' communities and ethnic identity, focusing on a culturally, nationally, and racially mixed group of Japanese Peruvians who are dispersed across Peru, Japan, and the United States.
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Making sense of crises: the implications of information asymmetries for resilience and social justice in disaster-ridden communities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how new information and communication technologies (ICT) have enabled communities to collect and share information and tap into a network of peers in unprecedented ways, and how they have enabled them to collect, share and access information.