POLS 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 1 : Fjord, Social Fact, Brm P48
15 Jan 2017
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This poses the general problem of how ethnic diversity is socially articulated and maintained. My material shows a situation where an ethnic status (or identity) is, in a sense, illegitimate, and therefore not acted out in institutional inter-ethnic behaviour. Nevertheless, this very illegitimacy has definite implications in the process of role-taking in elementary interaction and then adds form to inter-ethnic relations. My case refers to an area of mixed norwegian coast lappish population inhabiting the fjords and inlets of west-finnmark, northern norway. There is a lack of contrasting cultural traits between lapps and norwegians, but these ethnic labels are attached to communities as well as to families and individual persons, and are in daily use. Under the disability of a stigmatized ethnic identity, members of the. Coast lappish population in question seek to qualify themselves as full participants in the norwegian society.
