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Ethnicity - Theory and Experience (Paperback, New Ed)
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This volume launches a far-reaching exploration into the meaning,
manifestations, and significance of ethnicity in modern society and
politics. The authors seek neither to celebrate nor to deplore
ethnicity, but rather to examine it as a basis of social
organization which in modern societies has achieved a significance
comparable to that of social class. Ethnicity indicates that
minority groups around the world are no longer doing what society
for hundreds of years has expected them to do-assimilate,
disappear, or endure as exotic, troublesome survivors. Instead,
their numbers expanded by immigration, their experiences and
struggles mirrored to one another by the international mass media,
minorities have become vital, highly conscious forces within almost
all contemporary societies. Ethnicity has played a pivotal role in
recent social change; it has evolved into a political idea, a
mobilizing principle, and an effective means of advancing group
interests. Together with Glazer and Moynihan, Harold Isaacs,
Talcott Parsons, Martin Kilson, Orlando Patterson, Daniel Bell,
Milton Esman, Milton Gordon, William Petersen, and others bring
analytic clarity to the rich concept of "ethnicity." Their effort
to explain why ethnic identity has become more salient, ethnic
self-assertion stronger, and ethnic conflict more intense helps to
develop a catholic view of ethnicity: this surpasses limited
categories of race and nationality; includes the old world and the
new, economically developed as well as developing nations; and
offers a broad variety of theoretical approaches. Presenting the
readers with a wealth of perceptions, points of view, and examples,
Ethnicity: Theory and Experience will provoke discussion and
argument for years to come.
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