SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: W. E. B. Du Bois, Aryan Race, Primordialism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Everyone belongs to at least one ethnic group. Understanding ethnicity is not just a matter of collecting ethnic traits such as language, food, clothing, etc. Primordialism (sometimes referred to as essentialism) is the view that every ethnic group is made up of certain traits that have been carried down from the past to the present with little or no change. Change does not come from within but outside forces. Tends to absolve colonial powers of blame for regional conflicts. Colonialism: the economic and political exploitation of a weaker country or people by a stronger one. Internal colonialism: colonialism of one people by another within a single country. Anti-colonialism, or post-colonialism: a theoretical framework that analyzes the destructive impact of colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized. Involves identifying colonialism as a factor in the development of conflict between ethnic groups.