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Week 2: The (un)making of groups, THE ETHNIC GROUP - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Ethnic groups are those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent."
        
        Based on similarities of physical type or custom
        
        Based on (collective) memories an migration
        
        Inspired/motivated by political community
    - - "Ethnic groups show as much overlap with neighbouring groups as they show variety within their boundaries."
        
        People cross ethnic boundaries
        
        Appear as culturally similar but are ethnically very different (or the other way around)
        
        Focus on the boundaries that separate ethnic groups
    - - Social category
        
        Rules of membership
        
        Content
        
        Culturalist/Ethno-symbolic
    - - Social boundary
        
        Categorial dimension
        
        Behavioural dimension
    - - Political functionality
      - Enculturation
    - - Reification
        
        Institutionalization
    - - Types of ethnicity
        
        Urban ethnic minorities
        
        Indigenous people
        
        Ethno-nations with(out) state
        
        Ethnic groups in plural societies
        
        Ethnic groups in new states
    - - Mechanisms & modalities
        
        Subdimension of ethnicity
        
        Form of social identity
        
        Mobilizing 'script'
        
        Specific qualities in order to establish 'right order'
      - Move beyond Groupism
        
        Rethinking Ethnicity
        
        The Reality of Ethnicity
        
        Groupness as Event
        
        Groups and Categories
        
        Group Making as Project
        
        Groups and Organizations
        
        Framing and Coding
        
        Ethnicity as Cognition
        
        Implications
        
        Sensitivity to framing dynamics
        
        Recognition of the centrality of organizations in ethnic conflict
        
        Awareness of possible divergence between interests of leaders and of their consistens
        
        Sensivity to the variable nature of groupness
        
        Focus on the importance of intra-ethnic mechanisms
      - Particularizing
      - Generalizing
      - Religion
        
        Can define reality
        
        Can legitimate violent action
        
        Can legitimate admirable political engagement
    - - Possibility to make/unmake war
- - - - It's in your DNA, biologically determined
        
        No evidence
        
        Ethnicity is 'simply there'