The sociology of ethnicity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
2004.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=251571 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Classical sociological theory and ethnicity
- Neo-Marxism: capitalism, class and culture
- Functionalism: ethnicity, modernization and social integration
- Symbolic interactionism: the social construction of ethnic group reality
- Sociobiology: ethnic groups as extended families
- Rational choice theory: ethnic group membership as an individual gain
- Elite theory: ethnicity as a political resource
- Neo-Weberian theory: ethnicity as a status privilege
- Anti-foundationalist approaches: deconstructing ethnicity
- Sociological theory and ethnic relations: Where to go from here?