scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

Maurice Freedman, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1970 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 2, pp 231
Reads0
Chats0
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.

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

The Protean Quality of Subcultural Consumption: An Ethnographic Account of Gay Consumers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined and interpreted ethnographic fieldwork and the consumer accounts of 44 gay men interviewed during a study of a gay urban community, and found that the oppositional character of subcultural consumption is captured well by the proposed theoretical framework that takes into account contested meaning clusters; fluid subcultural boundaries; flexible subcultural, interpretive frameworks for consuming; and negotiation of individual tastes through subculture consumption.
Journal ArticleDOI

The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Europe

TL;DR: The authors compared the relative salience or configuration of symbolic boundaries in 21 European countries. But the results indicate that the symbolic boundaries deployed by the general public do not correspond to the official "philosophies of integration" emphasized in the literature, and the data suggest previous comparisons have focused too heavily on Western Europe, overlooking important variation in other regions of Europe where immigration began more recen
Journal ArticleDOI

An Archaeology of Landscapes: Perspectives and Directions

TL;DR: In this paper, a review called for the definition of a landscape approach in archaeology and suggested that archaeology is particularly well suited among the social sciences for defining and applying a landscape-based approach.
Posted Content

The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity

TL;DR: The empirical analysis conducted across countries, virtual countries and pairs of contiguous regions establishes that geographic variability, captured by variation in regional land quality and elevation, is a fundamental determinant of contemporary linguistic diversity.
Journal ArticleDOI

A plea for the ‘de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that migration and integration research originates in a historically institutionalized nation-state migration apparatus and is thus entangled with a particular normalization discourse, therefore, this field of study contributes to reproducing the categories of this particular migration apparatus.