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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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Cities, migrant incorporation and ethnicity : A network perspective on boundary work
TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of the personal social networks of 250 inhabitants of a small Swiss City, supplemented by data from qualitative interviews brings to light the important categories for the creation of boundaries and the place of ethnicity among them.
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Land, labour and group formation: Blacks and Indians in the United States
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive racial consciousness emerged early among African-Americans in the United States, but only relatively recently among Native Americans, and this difference set in motion two distinct trajectories of group formation which were shaped by particular political relationships and by the classifications made by dominant group members.
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Assimilation or enduring racial boundaries? Generational differences in intermarriage among Asians and Latinos in the United States
TL;DR: This article found that Asian and Latino immigrant groups' assimilation patterns are more similar to those of turn-of-the-century European immigrants or African Americans, while first generation Asians, Latinos and Europeans have similar intermarriage rates, third generation Europeans intermarried much more than third generation Asians or Latinos.
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Federal Political Elites and the Expansion of Ethnic Politics to the Periphery State of Sabah in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role played by governing federal politicians in generating ethnicity in Sabah's politics and concluded that abandoning ethnic-based democracy and policies is crucial in providing more universal benefits to the citizenry and preventing full-fledged conflict within an ethnically and religiously diverse population.
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Language and ethnicity in international management
TL;DR: This paper investigated the use of language as related to ethnicity and group formation through the study of Danish expatriates in Saudi Arabia and found that language can be identified as linked to social strategies of inclusion and exclusion.