Ethnicity

by Glazer, Nathan

• ISBN13: 9780674268562
• ISBN10: 0674268563
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1976-10-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

This benchmark book launches a far-reaching exploration into the meaning, manifestations, and significance of ethnicity in modern society.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(28)
Nathan Glazer
Daniel P. Moynihan
TOWARD A GENERAL THEORY
Basic Group Identity: The Idols of the Tribe	29	(24)
Harold R. Isaacs
Some Theoretical Considerations on the Nature and Trends of Change of Ethnicity	53	(31)
Talcott Parsons
Toward a General Theory of Racial and Ethnic Group Relations	84	(27)
Milton M. Gordon
Ethnic Identity	111	(30)
Donald L. Horowitz
Ethnicity and Social Change	141	(36)
Daniel Bell
THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
On the Subnations of Western Europe	177	(32)
William Petersen
The Transmission of Cultural Heritages: The Case of the Irish and the Italians	209	(27)
Andrew M. Greeley
William C. McCready
Blacks and Neo-Ethnicity in American Political Life	236	(31)
Martin Kilson
Ethnic Pluralism in Canadian Perspective	267	(38)
John Porter
Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance: A Theoretical Framework and Caribbean Case Study	305	(45)
Orlando Patterson
Indian, Mestizo, and Cholo as Symbols in the Peruvian System of Stratification	350	(41)
Francois Bourricaud
THE NEW STATES
Communal Conflict in Southeast Asia	391	(29)
Milton J. Esman
Ethnic Stratification and the Military Agrarian Complex: The Uganda Case	420	(33)
Ali A. Mazrui
THE OLD EMPIRES
Reflections on the Nationality Problems in the Soviet Union	453	(13)
Richard Pipes
Ethnicity, Language Demands, and National Development in India	466	(23)
Jyotirindra Das Gupta
China: Ethnic Minorities and National Security	489	(24)
Lucian W. Pye
List of Contributors	513	(1)
Index	514