Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

01 Jun 1970-British Journal of Sociology-Vol. 21, Iss: 2, pp 231

About: 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.

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Culture Consciousness Among Hmong Immigrant Leaders: Beyond the Dichotomy of Cultural Essentialism and Cultural Hybridity

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Bic Ngo¹•Institutions (1)

University of Minnesota¹

01 Oct 2013-American Educational Research Journal

TL;DR: In this article, the authors illustrate the culture consciousness of Hmong immigrant community leaders as they made sense of the educational experiences for Hmong American children and families, drawing on the work of scholars who have theorized critical essentialism to suggest that Hmong leaders are critically aware of the role and import of dominant culture in shaping the contours of children's education.

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Abstract: This article illustrates the culture consciousness of Hmong immigrant community leaders as they made sense of the educational experiences of Hmong American children and families. It draws on the work of scholars who have theorized “critical” essentialism to suggest that Hmong leaders are critically aware of the role and import of dominant culture in shaping the contours of Hmong children’s education. The analysis brings attention to “culture consciousness”—a lens for analyzing immigrant education that highlights the deployment of culture as social critique and political strategy. This research complicates the essentialist versus anti-essentialist binary for analyzing culture and disrupts the tendency to portray immigrant parents and adults as entrenched in a reified culture.

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...For Barth (1969), focusing only on the cultural traits of ethnic groups confounds the impact of cultural tradition with the ways in which social environments lead to responses that produce patterns of changes in belief and behavior....
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...In considering the distinctiveness of ethnic groups, it is ‘‘the ethnic boundary that defines the group, not the cultural stuff that it encloses’’ that may provide most insight (Barth, 1969, p. 15)....
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...Culture in this sense is conceptualized as instrumental, deployed by racial and ethnic groups as protective shield or delineating boundary in response to hostile social environments (Barth, 1969)....
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Industrial heritage, regeneration of cities and public policies in the 1990s: elements of a French/British comparison

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Michel Rautenberg

03 Sep 2012-International Journal of Heritage Studies

TL;DR: In the 1990s, the French and British governments proposed two different strategies for the role that industrial heritage might have in repairing the effects of deindustrialisation, from a general point of view, the British promoted tourism, while the French preferred cultural projects as mentioned in this paper.

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Abstract: In west-European countries, public policies often argue that heritage - and in particular industrial heritage - could be an effective resource for economic and social development in areas that have been severely affected by de-industrialisation. During the 1990s, the French and British governments proposed two different strategies for the role that industrial heritage might have in repairing the effects of deindustrialisation. From a general point of view, the British promoted tourism, while the French preferred cultural projects. However, concrete examples, such as the ones presented in the present article, show a more complex situation. First, already at that time local authorities and local powers played an important role - especially in Great Britain - in the politics of heritage. Second, these politics are impacted by struggles and tensions between local populations and 'external' agents. Third, the local populations see these heritage-based development projects as being based on a 'mythification' of labour and of the workers' culture. Finally, local populations seem to feel that such projects are imposed from 'the outside', which tends to result in local agents not fully accepting or identifying themselves with such heritage-based projects.

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Singing in 'The Peg' : the dynamics of Winnipeg singing cultures during the 20th century

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Muriel Louise Smith

01 Sep 2015

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how this culture has been shaped by social and political actions through transnational connections over the 20th century, and examine the mutable political and social transnational relationships between diaspora Poles and those in the homeland, as reflected through the activities of the choir of Winnipeg's Sokol Polish Ensemble.

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Abstract: The research begins by establishing Winnipeg, as a city comprised of many different European immigrant communities where the dominant British-Canadian culture reflected the Canadian national consciousness of the early 20th century. After an outline of early musical life in the city, four case studies demonstrate how the solo vocal and choral culture in Winnipeg represents a realization of the constitutive, continuously forming and mutable relationships between peoples of differing identities. In all of these case studies, I investigate how this culture has been shaped by social and political actions through transnational connections over the 20th century. The first two case studies are underpinned by the theories of cultural capital and gender. The first focuses on the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg (1900-1920s), an elite group of Brito-Canadian women who shaped the reception of high art singing among their peers primarily through their American connections. The second investigates the Men’s Musical Club of Winnipeg (1920s-1950s), a dynamic group of businessmen and musicians who sought to reinforce Brito-Canadian cultural supremacy by developing a choral culture and establishing a music competition festival based on British models and enforced by British musical associations. The third and fourth case studies are examined through the lens of diaspora and identity, underpinned by social capital. One examines the changing perspectives towards vocal repertoire and its performance in the urban Mennonite community from the 1950s until the end of the century, and how this has shaped high art vocal culture in Winnipeg. The final case study investigates the mutable political and social transnational relationships between diaspora Poles and those in the homeland, as reflected through the activities of the choir of Winnipeg’s Sokol Polish Ensemble. This thesis contributes to the knowledge on transnational musical relationships that shape urban and diaspora musical cultures in Canada.

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...Thus Barth’s concept of ascription – the attributes that define belonging to a specific group – either by others or by self is an inherent aspect in the discussion of intergroup boundaries, and is equally essential in ‘the maintenance of intragroup boundaries’ (Savaglio, 2004, 6). Savaglio’s interpretation and extension of Barth’s explanation of boundaries, supported by Erdman’s intragroup distinctions is particularly relevant when investigating the changing repertoire and praxis of Sokół Choir, as will shortly become clear. In his history, Poles in Manitoba, Turek (1967) reports that ‘the most popular form of music [was] vocal music, particularly choral performances’ (230)....
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...My discussion of ethnicity draws on the concept of intragroup maintenance (Savaglio (2004), Erdmans (1998)) as an extension of boundary (Barth (1969, 1981)), and Harms’s (2000) and Radhakrishnan’s (2003) suggestion that ethnicity is mutable and context-specific. I apply diaspora theory, as presented by Savaglio (2004) and Wrazen (1991, 2007) in their studies of Polish expressive arts in Detroit and Toronto, to Winnipeg’s Polish community....
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...My discussion of ethnicity draws on the concept of intragroup maintenance (Savaglio (2004), Erdmans (1998)) as an extension of boundary (Barth (1969, 1981)), and Harms’s (2000) and Radhakrishnan’s (2003) suggestion that ethnicity is mutable and context-specific....
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...In the final chapter featuring the choir of Sokół Polish Folk Ensemble, secondary source study focused on the construction of ethnic identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Appadurai, 2003; Radhakrishan, 2003), on diaspora and transnationalism in identity and community formation (Braziel and Mannur,…...
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Italianità on Tour: From the Mediterranean to Southeast Florida, 1896-1939

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Antonietta Di Pietro

01 Jan 2013

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Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism, and the Matthean Ethnos:

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Dennis C. Duling¹•Institutions (1)

Society of Biblical Literature¹

01 Nov 2005-Biblical Theology Bulletin

TL;DR: The authors survey and comment on important studies on ethnicity in Matthew by David Sim and John Riches, and explore the model linguistically and conceptually with literature from antiquity, and show how modern ethnicity studies can offer insights into ethnicity and in particular how priestly voluntary associations called ethnē might help to interpret the special fruit-bearing ethnos of Matthew 21:43 in terms of an alternative leadership to the priests of Jerusalem.

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Abstract: In the light of the horrors of war and ethnic conflict, ethnicity has become a subject of increasing scholarly investigation, which now includes the field of religion and the Bible. I begin by surveying and commenting on important studies on ethnicity in Matthew by David Sim and John Riches. Then I offer a brief overview of ethnicity theory and create a simple model of ethnicity. After exploring the model linguistically and conceptually with literature from antiquity, I show how modern ethnicity studies can offer insights into ethnicity in Matthew and in particular how priestly voluntary associations called ethnē might help to interpret the special fruit-bearing ethnos of Matthew 21:43 in terms of an alternative leadership to the priests of Jerusalem.

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