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Resultat
Leksikonartikkel
2014

Ethnicity, Overview

Bidragsytere:
  • Joshua Marvle Phelps og
  • Marjan Nadim

Bok

Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology
ISBN:
  • 978-1-4614-5584-4

Utgiver

Springer
NVI-nivå 1

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Leksikonartikkel
Publiseringsår: 2014
Sider: 607 - 612
ISBN:
  • 978-1-4614-5584-4

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Tittel

Ethnicity, Overview

Sammendrag

Ethnicity has become a key, but contested analytical concept used to distinguish human groups in the wider social sciences and everyday life. It tends to refer to the classification of people and boundaries between groups that are based on shared ideas or myths of a common origin, descent and history. Ethnicity is often associated with minority (cultural, racial, religious) groups that are different than a majority, especially in everyday speech. However, it has become increasingly used to describe majority (e.g. ethnic Dutch or ethnic Norwegian) as well as minority members (e.g. immigrants) in contemporary multicultural societies. Ethnicity is also, importantly, a relational concept about demarcations and involves the construction of similarities and differences between two or more groups in social interaction. An ethnic group is thus always defined in relation to some other group(s). This process involves how both members and non-members recognize (cultural) distinctions between groups, and further implies that they possess a certain degree of contact with each other.

Bidragsytere

Joshua Phelps

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Joshua Marvle Phelps
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Politihøgskolen
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Marjan Nadim

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsforskning
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