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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825432203321

Autore

Malesevic Sinisa

Titolo

The sociology of ethnicity / / Sinisa Malesevic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, 2004

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Sage Publications, , 2004

ISBN

1-4462-3183-6

0-7619-4042-1

1-280-36851-9

9786610368518

1-4129-3283-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ([ix], 200 p.)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnicity

Ethnic conflict

Politics and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Classical Sociological Theory and Ethnicity; Chapter 3 - Neo-Marxism: Capitalism, Class and Culture; Chapter 4 - Functionalism: Ethnicity, Modernization and Social Integration; Chapter 5 - Symbolic Interactionism: The Social Construction of Ethnic Group Reality; Chapter 6 - Sociobiology: Ethnic Groups as Extended Families; Chapter 7 - Rational Choice Theory: Ethnic Group Membership as an Individual Gain; Chapter 8 - Elite Theory: Ethnicity as a Political Resource

Chapter 9 - Neo-weberian Theory: Ethnicity as a Status PrivilegeChapter 10 - Anti-foundationalist Approaches: Deconstructing Ethnicity; Chapter 11 - Sociological Theory and Ethnic Relations: Where to go From Here?; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Spanning classic sociology to current debates, this book synthesizes the leading sociological interpretations of ethnic relations and provides a coherent theoretical framework for its analysis.