SOSC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Modernization Theory, Consociationalism, Ethnic Conflict

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2800
• Professor: Merouan Mekouar

Document Summary

Sosc 2800 - development in comparative and historical perspective march 13th, 2017. Defining ethnicity: a social construction, eth(cid:374)i(cid:272) groups share (cid:271)eliefs a(cid:271)out (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) des(cid:272)e(cid:374)t or histori(cid:272)al e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e but, beliefs often embellished or wrong, nourished by ethnic entrepreneurs (as well as bad journalists and academics) Ethnic and state boundaries: 5000 ethnic groups in the world for 191 countries, e(cid:454): kurdista(cid:374), pu(cid:374)ja(cid:271) , most pronounced in africa, due to colonial history, but also breakdown of european colonialism, ex. 1: timor-leste and indonesia: 25% of the population killed by indonesian military, ex. Types of ethnic and cultural divisions: nationality, (cid:862)populatio(cid:374) with its ow(cid:374) la(cid:374)guage, (cid:272)ultural traditio(cid:374)s, histor(cid:455), and sometimes, geographi(cid:272)al lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374)(cid:863, ex: kashmir, punjab, kabylia. , centrality of language, tension arise if, concentrated/majority. Sosc 2800 - development in comparative and historical perspective march 13th, 2017: ex: sri lanka, tribe, controversial term, most common in sub-saharan africa, conflicts often exacerbated by foreign powers, race, recent source of group identity.