CRI210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Primordialism, Civil Conflict, Relative Deprivation
5 Feb 2018
School
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The term ethnicity commonly refers to collectivities that share a myth of origin. Most who use the term emphasize the importance of ancestry. Others stress the importance of history, most often migration and settlement, but passage, be it escape from oppression or the colonization of new territory. " groups larger than a family for which membership is reckoned primarily by conceptually autonomous and has a conventionally recongized "natural histo. Firstly, enthnicity rests upon a variable list of shared cultural attributes. Secondly, ethnicity is defined by an active consciousness of collective selfhood. They constitute the us; whom one is depends u not. According to a. smith, the characteristics of "ethnic group" include: A collective proper name, a myth of common ancestry. One or more differentiating elements of common culture. And a sense of solidarity for significant sectors of the population. Defining ethnicity on the basis of other singular factors is just as faulty.
