ethnic enclave

Examples of ethnic enclave in the following topics:

• Neighborhood

  • Ethnic enclaves were important in many past cities and remain common in cities today.
  • Justify the importance of neighborhoods and communities as units of socialization, especially when specialized, such as by ethnicity or religion

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • Such societies are considered more susceptible to class conflict as well as racial and ethnic conflicts.
  • Fredric Jameson highlights the ambivalent envy felt by members of gesellschaft for remaining enclaves of gemeinschaft, even as the former inevitably corrode the existence of the latter.

• Ethnicity

  • The process that results in the emergence of an ethnicity is known as ethnogenesis.
  • The following categories - "ethnic categories," "ethnic networks," "ethnies" or "ethnic communities," and "situational ethnicity" - were developed in order to distinguish the instances when ethnic classification is the labeling of others and when it is a case of self-identification.
  • A "situational ethnicity" is an ethnic identity that is chosen for the moment based on the social setting or situation.
  • Primordialism holds that ethnicity has existed at all times of human history and that modern ethnic groups have historical roots far into the past.
  • Perennialism holds that ethnicity is ever changing, and that while the concept of ethnicity has existed at all times, ethnic groups are generally short lived before the ethnic boundaries realign in new patterns.

• Ethnic Groups

  • An ethnic group is a group of people who share a common heritage, culture, and/or language; in the U.S., ethnicity often refers to race.
  • Most prominently in the U.S., Latin American descended populations are grouped in a "Hispanic" or "Latino" ethnicity.
  • The many previously designated "Oriental" ethnic groups are now classified as the "Asian" racial group for the census.
  • The terms "Black" and "African American," while different, are both used as ethnic categories in the U.S.
  • Explain why ethnic and racial categories tend to overlap in the U.S.

• Race and Ethnicity

  • Some of the social traits often used for ethnic classification include:
  • Unlike race, ethnicity is not usually externally assigned by other individuals.
  • The term ethnicity focuses more upon a group's connection to a perceived shared past and culture.
  • An example of an ethnic group in the U.S. is Hispanic or Latino.

• The Conflict Perspective

  • For Karl Marx, class conflict was most prominent; other theorists saw racial and ethnic conflict as more significant.
  • For Marx, issues related to race and ethnicity are secondary to class struggle.
  • Other early conflict theorists saw racial and ethnic conflict as more central.
  • Sociologist Ludwig Gumplowicz, in Grundriss der Soziologie (Outlines of Sociology, 1884), described how civilization has been shaped by conflict between cultures and ethnic groups, theorizing that large complex human societies evolved from war and conquest.
  • Explain race and ethnicity from the perspective of different conflict theorists

• Introduction

  • Demographic analysis can relate to whole societies or to smaller groups defined by criteria such as education, religion, or ethnicity.

• Minority Groups

  • Every large society contains ethnic minorities: subgroups that share a common heritage, which often consists of a shared language, culture (often including a religion), or ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy.
  • In some places, subordinate ethnic groups may constitute a numerical majority, such as blacks in South Africa under apartheid.
  • In addition to long-established ethnic minority populations in various nation-states, ethnic minorities may consist of more recent migrant, indigenous, or landless nomadic communities residing within, or between, a particular national territory.
  • This tribe is a small branch of ethnic Miao in the western part of Guizhou Province, China.
  • In addition to their small numbers and distinctive ethnicity from the larger Han Chinese majority, they are considered a minority given their relative lack of power in China's larger political structure.

• The Feminist Perspective

  • Multiculturalism aims to allow distinct cultures to reside together, either as distinct enclaves within ostensively Western societies, or as separate societies with national borders.

• The Interactionist Perspective

  • Race and ethnicity affect the meaning we attach to each other's actions.
  • One of the most influential symbolic interactionist theorists on race and ethnic relations was Robert Park.