Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
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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TL;DR: The authors examined consumption as a function of two ethnicity indicators, ethnic origin and media usage, and found that ethnic origin, a reflective indicator, is not subject to the volition of a person and is hardly changed by continuous contact with the mainstream group.
Abstract: Examines consumption as a function of two ethnicity indicators. Ethnic origin, a reflective indicator, is not subject to the volition of a person and is hardly changed by continuous contact with the mainstream group. On the other hand, media usage is partly determined by the extent and duration of one’s contacts with the mainstream group, and is therefore considered as a formative indicator. Using a sample of French‐ and English‐Canadians drawn from the Toronto area, this study provides preliminary evidence showing that ethnic origin, media usage, and other ethnicity indicators vary in terms of the extent to which they are amenable to acculturative pressure. A new typology of consumption is also introduced based on the distinction between ethnic origin as a reflective indicator and media usage as a formative indicator.
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15 Jun 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the definition of frontieres du "nous/non-nous" in the context of the debat on accommodements religieux in Quebec.
Abstract: Cet article etudie la maniere dont le discours de l’egalite-de-genre-et-des-libertes-sexuelles, qui a acquis un statut central dans les debats sur la citoyennete et l’integration en Occident, est amene a travailler la definition des frontieres du « nous/non-nous » dans le contexte des recentes controverses autour des accommodements religieux au Quebec. Alors que l’Etat-nation constitue le cadre le plus saillant dans lequel les frontieres ethnoculturelles sont produites, le Quebec, avec son ambiguite quant a la dominance ethnique et son projet irrealise mais encore actuel de definition nationale et de souverainete politique (sa separation du Canada), s’avere un cas interessant pour l’etude des processus de definition de frontieres. L’examen des arguments relatifs a l’egalite de genre presents dans la couverture du debat sur les accommodements religieux proposee par la presse revele des pratiques discursives de patrouille de frontieres (boundary patrolling), comme le ravalement des conceptions minoritaires sur la feminite, la masculinite, le mariage et la sexualite au rang d’archaismes ou de pathologies. Non seulement ces pratiques discursives contribuent-elles a delegitimer les ideaux et les accommodements multiculturels, mais elles presentent le Quebec, qui se qualifie lui-meme de « tard-venu de la modernite », comme un promoteur de l’egalite de genre et des libertes sexuelles dont le statut exemplaire doit etre protege contre l’alterite religieuse.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how people experience multi-sited embeddedness, which they understand both in their daily lives and in their work in the field of public service.
Abstract: Civic participation today is increasingly multi-sited, operating in, between and across specific locations. Growing numbers of people experience multi-sited embeddedness, which I understand both in...
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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the HORIZON 2020 project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 742705.
Abstract: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's HORIZON 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 742705
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...Consequently, their identity unit will be based on common rituals and symbols that form the basis of an imagined community that establishes limits for group membership (Barth, 1969)....
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