What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-717-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 232 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banton, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: The Paradox

Chapter 1. The Scientific Sources of the Paradox

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Two dimensions

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Taxonomy

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Typology

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Darwin and Mendel

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Two Vocabularies

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The Power of the Ordinary Language Construct

 

Chapter 2. The Political Sources of the Paradox

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Social Categories and Their Names

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After the Civil War

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Discrimination

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The ‘One-Drop’ Rule

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Counter Trends

 

Chapter 3. International Pragmatism

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The Racial Convention

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Implementing the Convention

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Other International Action

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Naming the Categories

 

Chapter 4. Sociological Knowledge

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Theoretical or Practical?

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The Chicago School

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In World Perspective

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Social Race?

 

Chapter 5. Conceptions of Racism

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Writing History

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Teaching Philosophy

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Teaching Sociology

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Sociological Textbooks

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Political Ends

 

Chapter 6. Ethnic Origin and Ethnicity

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Census categories

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Anthropology

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A New Reality?

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Nomenclature

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Sociobiology

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Ethnic Origin as a Social Sign

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Comparative Politics

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The Current Sociology of Ethnicity

 

Chapter 7. Collective Action

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The Rediscovery of Weber’s 1911 Notes

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Four Propositions

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Closure

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The Human Capital Variable

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The Colour Variable

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Ethnic Preferences

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Opening relationships

 

Conclusion: The Paradox Resolved

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Banton, Michael
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).

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).