Theories of ethnicity : a critical appraisal

著者

• Thompson, Richard H.

書誌事項

Theories of ethnicity : a critical appraisal

Richard H. Thompson

（Contributions in sociology, no. 82）

Greenwood Press, 1989

注記

Bibliography: p. [185]-191

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Perhaps no aspect of social relations has stirred more academic controversy than the subject of race and ethnicity. Theories that explain the persistence and vitality of the ethnic phenomenon--as well as commentaries on these theories--abound in sociological and anthropological literature. This study is the first, however, to critique the field as a whole. Thompson offers systematic comparisons of current theories, testing both their internal consistency and their adequacy as analytical tools. Thompson's study focuses the debate on ethnicity in a constructive and original fashion. Thompson devotes a chapter to each of the major theoretical traditions that now dominate the field of ethnicity: sociobiology, primordialism, assimilationism, world-system theory, and neo-Marxism. He describes the basic tenets of each theory and demonstrates that the facts they seek to explain are embedded within their theoretical assumptions. He attributes disagreements among the theories less to differences over facts than to the way they are interpreted within different worldviews arising from divergent philosophical and scientific presuppositions. He shows that it is not possible to critique any theory using the assumptions of another theory, arguing that theories can be internally critiqued based on the relationship between their adequacy as theories and the framework they offer for making normative choices. Thompson's study focuses the debate on ethnicity in a constructive and original fashion. The book will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students working the areas of race and ethnic relations or theoretical criticism.

目次

Preface Introduction: Ethnicity and Human Nature In Genes We Trust: The Sociobiology of Race and Ethnicity Primordial Sentiments Versus Civil Ties: The Dialectic Between Ethnicity and the State Assimilationism and Its Discontents: Race, Class, and the New Ethnicity Ethnicity and the Capitalist World-System Race and Ethnicity: Neo-Marxian Explanations and a Reformulation Epilogue: Theoretical Worldviews and Theoretical Choice Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA07634045
• ISBN:
  • 0313266360
• LCCN: 89002120
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: x, 196 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : GN495.6
  • DC20 : 305.8
  • NDC6 : 389
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Ethnicity
  • LCSH : Race
  • LCSH : Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00197510