What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity

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Beschreibung

Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish "race" as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to "race," "racism," and "ethnicity" in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.

Über den Autor

Michael Banton (1926-2018) taught social anthroplogy in the University of Edinburgh 1954-65; political science in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1962-63; and sociology in the University of Bristol 1965-92. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1987-89, and from 1986 to 2001 a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Chairman, 1996-98).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: The Paradox

Chapter 1. The Scientific Sources of the Paradox

Two dimensions
Taxonomy
Typology
Darwin and Mendel
Two Vocabularies
The Power of the Ordinary Language Construct

Chapter 2. The Political Sources of the Paradox

Social Categories and Their Names
After the Civil War
Discrimination
The 'One-Drop' Rule
Counter Trends

Chapter 3. International Pragmatism

The Racial Convention
Implementing the Convention
Other International Action
Naming the Categories

Chapter 4. Sociological Knowledge

Theoretical or Practical?
The Chicago School
In World Perspective
Social Race?

Chapter 5. Conceptions of Racism

Writing History
Teaching Philosophy
Teaching Sociology
Sociological Textbooks
Political Ends

Chapter 6. Ethnic Origin and Ethnicity

Census categories
Anthropology
A New Reality?
Nomenclature
Sociobiology
Ethnic Origin as a Social Sign
Comparative Politics
The Current Sociology of Ethnicity

Chapter 7. Collective Action

The Rediscovery of Weber's 1911 Notes
Four Propositions
Closure
The Human Capital Variable
The Colour Variable
Ethnic Preferences
Opening relationships

Conclusion: The Paradox Resolved

Select Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Volkskunde
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Völkerkunde
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781782387176
ISBN-10:	178238717X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Banton, Michael
Hersteller:	Berghahn Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael Banton
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2015
Gewicht:	0,232 kg

Artikel-ID: 104047071