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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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‘Taking culture seriously’: implications for intercultural education and training
Tania Ogay,Doris Edelmann +1 more
TL;DR: This article propose a heuristic tool, the dialectical square of cultural difference, as well as three metaphors of culture, that should help teacher educators to foster a dynamic and complex understanding of culture and cultural difference among pre- and in-service teachers.
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Spectacles of ethnicity: festivals and the commodification of ethnic culture among louisiana cajuns
Carl L. Bankston,Jacques Henry +1 more
TL;DR: The authors identified the festival as a key aspect of the Cajun revival since the 1960s and suggested that changes in the perception of an ethnic identity are related to socioeconomic transformation, and that the consumption of ethnic commodities is linked by the consumers with a sense of tradition and descent from a mythic past.
Dissenting Democrats : Nation and Democracy in the Republic of Moldova
TL;DR: The Republic of Moldova was one of the fifteen states to emerge from the dissolution of the Soviet Union with weak historical legacy of statehood, deteriorating economy and serious national divisions.
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The question of moral action: a formalist position
TL;DR: This article developed a research position that allows cultural sociologists to compare morality across sociohistorical cases by focusing analytic attention on actions that fulfill the following criteria: (a) actions that define the actor as a certain kind of socially recognized person, both within and across fields; (b) actions actors experience or that they expect others to perceive, as defining the actor both intersituationally and to a greater extent than other available definitions of self; and (c) actions to which actors either have themselves, or expect other to have, a predictable emotional reaction.
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Seed exchange networks, ethnicity, and sorghum diversity.
TL;DR: This study quantifies the effect of homophily on seed exchange networks and details the major role played by kinship systems, and provides a better understanding of the social processes involved in crop diversity dynamics.