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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30 Sep 2011
TL;DR: The authors explores a central tension in identity politics -how the state, civil society and people in general may want to create and maintain cultural, religious and social cohesion but paradoxically paradoxical...
Abstract: This book explores a central tension in identity politics – how the state, civil society and people in general may want to create and maintain cultural, religious and social cohesion but paradoxica ...
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...…(Hirschman, 1986). it is the borders of these categories that hold the keys to the identities themselves, as Barth has shown for ethnic identity (Barth, 1969). at the same time identity and identities straddle the fine line between caging us within particulars or drowning us in the universal…...
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...it is the borders of these categories that hold the keys to the identities themselves, as Barth has shown for ethnic identity (Barth, 1969)....
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10 Nov 2011
TL;DR: The Holy Spirit in the early Jesus Movement as mentioned in this paper traces the history of research social identity and the 'Other': a Methodological and Historical Overview Expanding the Ethnic Horizon: The Spirit and Allocentric Identity in Luke 1-2 Critiquing Defective Identities: Spirit-empowered figures and in-group bias in Luke 3-4 Initiating a Scandal of universal particularity: The Holy Spirit and Superordinate Identity in Acts 1-1 Consummating a New Identity: The Community Summaries and the identity-forming power of a group Incorpor
Abstract: The Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts: Tracing the History of Research Social Identity and the 'Other': A Methodological and Historical Overview Expanding the Ethnic Horizon: The Spirit and Allocentric Identity in Luke 1-2 Critiquing Defective Identities: Spirit-empowered figures and In-group Bias in Luke 3-4 Initiating a Scandal of Universal Particularity: The Spirit in Acts 1-2 Consummating a New Identity: The Community Summaries and the Identity-forming Power of a Group Incorporating the 'Other': The Spirit and Superordinate Identity in Acts 6 - 9 Transcending Identity: The Spirit and Trans-Ethnic Identity in Acts 10 - 15 Conclusion: Ethnicity in the Early Jesus Movement Bibliography.
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TL;DR: The traditional Iron Age chronology has recently been challenged by I. Finkelstein who proposed a wholesale lowering of its dates as mentioned in this paper, and the cornerstone of the new chronology is the seeming absence of Ph...
Abstract: The traditional Iron Age chronology has recently been challenged by I. Finkelstein who proposed a wholesale lowering of its dates. The cornerstone of the new chronology is the seeming absence of Ph...
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TL;DR: The authors argue that political and economic forces generate deeper and more consequential forms of inequality between languages than between religions in contemporary liberal societies, while discursive and symbology processes that confer prestige, honour and stigma on particular languages and religions, and differential informal treatment of persons who speak different languages or practice different religions, as well as the ways in which linguistically or religiously differentiated social networks entail differential access to the resources that flow through such networks.
Abstract: Through what political, economic, cultural and social processes is difference transformed into inequality? Specifically, how are linguistic and religious pluralism implicated in the production and reproduction of inequality? I consider the political rules that privilege some languages and religions and disprivilege others; the processes that confer differential economic value on particular languages and religions; the discursive and symbolic processes that confer prestige, honour and stigma on particular languages and religions; and the differential informal treatment of persons who speak different languages or practice different religions, as well as the ways in which linguistically or religiously differentiated social networks entail differential access to the resources that flow through such networks. I argue that political and economic forces generate deeper and more consequential forms of inequality between languages than between religions in contemporary liberal societies, while discursive and symbo...
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TL;DR: The consequences of ethnic diversity in Africa have been widely noted as mentioned in this paper, however, the sources of this diversity remain unexplained, which is surprising in light of Africa's high level of ethnic divergence.
Abstract: The consequences of ethnic diversity in Africa have been widely noted. However, the sources of this diversity remain unexplained, which is surprising in light of Africa’s high level of ethnic diver...
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...…it as an independent variable rather than a dependent variable.4 This phenomenon has continued to occur despite the fact that anthropologists began to move away from a ‘primordial’ understanding of ethnicity towards a more ‘constructivist’ point of view in the late 1960s (Barth, 1969; Cohen, 1969)....
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