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: In this paper, the authors examine the consistance dans le temps de la penalite ethnique a l'embauche for de two cohortes de jeunes sortis de l'ecole au cours de la derniere decennie du XXe siecle.
Abstract: Cet article examine la consistance dans le temps de la penalite ethnique a l’embauche pour deux cohortes de jeunes sortis de l’ecole au cours de la derniere decennie du XXe siecle. Les resultats montrent que la penalite subie, a diplome egal, n’a pas substantiellement change pour le groupe des Maghrebins qui etait deja, dans les annees quatre-vingt, en difficulte en depit d’une baisse passagere du chomage et de la poursuite de la democratisation du systeme scolaire. Elle est significative pour deux autres groupes : les jeunes originaires d’Afrique subsaharienne et a un moindre degre d’Asie du Sud-Est. Dans cette periode ou l’amelioration de la conjoncture a ete plus favorable aux diplomes, les jeunes issus de l’immigration maghrebine sont, en nombre, encore restes detenteurs de faibles certifications. Ils sont desormais devances par les jeunes originaires du Portugal, qui paraissent avoir ete portes par l’expansion des filieres professionnelles vers les niveaux superieurs. Ceci peut conforter l’hypothese d’une « discrimination statistique », mecanisme qui s’appuie sur les caracteristiques moyennes d’un groupe. La frontiere avec une discrimination a caractere plus ouvertement raciste reste cependant floue. Le tres fort sentiment de discrimination qu’expriment les jeunes issus du Maghreb et d’Afrique noire ainsi que la vision pessimiste de l’avenir qui l’accompagne indiquent de toute facon une fracture forte au sein de la societe francaise que l’on ne retrouve pas pour le courant turc. Ces perceptions peuvent aussi contribuer a accentuer une dynamique negative sur le plus long terme, comme le montrent les donnees longitudinales dont on dispose pour la seconde cohorte. Ces resultats ouvrent sur une relecture de la theorie de « l’assimilation segmentee », telle qu’elle a ete proposee dans un contexte americain, en reference au racisme specifique de la societe americaine a l’egard de la population noire heritiere de l’esclavage.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a Fiskenian relational configuration analysis is used to understand how indigenes in a rural European town interpret certain immigrant consumption practices as manifestations of a gradual sell-out of the indigenous community, a crumbling of their authority, a violation of equality rules, and of being torn between contradictory micro-and macro-social morals.
Abstract: Consumer research commonly conceptualizes consumer acculturation as a project that immigrants pursue when adjusting their consumer identities and practices to unfamiliar sociocultural environments. This article broadens this prevailing view by conceptualizing consumer acculturation as a relational, interactive adaptation process that involves not only immigrant consumption practices but also indigenes who interpret and adjust to these practices, thereby shaping the paths of possibility for mutual adaptation. Based on a Fiskenian relational configuration analysis, the study explains how indigenes in a rural European town interpret certain immigrant consumption practices as manifestations of a gradual sell-out of the indigenous community, a crumbling of their authority, a violation of equality rules, and of indigenes being torn between contradictory micro- and macro-social morals. The article contributes a broader conceptualization of consumer acculturation, highlights four sources of ethnic group conflict in a consumer acculturation context, and demonstrates the epistemic value of Fiskenian relational configuration analysis for consumer culture theory.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the formation and maintenance of distinct ethnic populations within multiethnic communities is proposed to be functionally equivalent to the process of species diversification in multispecies communities, and the similarities between these two boundary-formation processes are defined and explored in an attempt to place a traditional anthropological concern within a broader theoretical perspective.
Abstract: The formation and maintenance of distinct ethnic populations within multiethnic communities is proposed to be functionally equivalent to the process of species diversification in multispecies communities. This paper suggests that while these processes operate through different selective mechanisms-one social and the other genetic-ethnic boundaries, like species boundaries, function to regulate the behavior of potentially competing populations in relation to each other and to available resources. The similarities between these two boundary-formation processes are defined and explored in an attempt to place a traditional anthropological concern within a broader theoretical perspective.
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...…that have employed an ecological or material focus and that have concentrated upon competition over scarce resources in conjunction with the allocation of labor required for efficient resource exploitation (Barth 1956, 1969a; Harris 1964; Shibutani and Kwan 1965; Cohen 1969; Despres 1969, 1975)....
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...This has been evident since the pioneering work by Barth (1956) on the ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat....
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...…challenge to the traditional conception of ethnic groups, the literature critical of the application of this and related concepts has grown rapidly (Barth 1956, 1964a, b, 1969a; Wallerstein 1960; Moerman 1965; Helm 1968; Vayda and Rappaport 1968; Cohen and Middleton 1970; LeVine and Campbell 1972;…...
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...These include contiguous nomadic and sedentary populations (Barth 1956, 1961, 1964a; Turnbull 1965; Haaland 1969; Dyson-Hudson 1972; Horowitz 1972; Nelson 1973; Peterson 1978), populations concentrated in extensive systems of preindustrial trade (Cohen 1969; Eitzen 1973; Foster 1974, 1976; Fidler…...
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TL;DR: The Shāhsevan tribes of Persia as discussed by the authors are a heterogeneous collection of groups brought together in a confederation of that name some time between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries.
Abstract: The Shāhsevan tribes of Persia are a heterogeneous collection of groups brought together in a confederation of that name some time between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. The question of how and when this confederation was formed is something of a riddle, which arises from the following considerations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Aboriginal women, youth, and the priority of individual choice are discussed, as well as the desire for internal equality and self-government and the politics of diversity.
Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Identity Politics and Pluralist Theory 2. Approaches to Aboriginal Identity 3. Aboriginal Culture, Nation, and the Politics of Difference 4. Aboriginal Women, Youth, and the Priority of Individual Choice 5. Aboriginal Boundaries and the Demand for External Equality 6. Aboriginal Identity and the Desire for Internal Equality Conclusion: Aboriginal Self-Government and the Politics of Pluralism Notes Bibliography Index
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