 | John Milton Yinger - 1994 - 512 pages
...our examination of the seamless web of life, both perspectives are needed. In a general definition, an ethnic group is a segment of a larger society whose...which the common origin and culture are significant ingredients.3 We need to distinguish a sociologically and psychologically important ethnicity from... | |
 | Tony Kendrick, Andre Tylee, Paul Freeling - 1996 - 418 pages
...overtones, but is used to describe as a group those who 'are thought by themselves and/or others to share a common origin and to share important segments of a common culture' (Yinger, 1981). This 'sense of belonging' comes from a mixture of shared origin, cultural values, and... | |
 | Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Rodolfo D. Torres - 1997 - 364 pages
...Milton Yinger (1994) as a segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and to share important...common origin and culture are significant ingredients, (p. 3) Milton Gordon (1964) similarly defines ethnicity as "a shared feeling of peoplehood" (p. 24).... | |
 | Siân Jones - 1997 - 206 pages
...instance, Yinger (1983: ix, my emphasis) defines ethnic groups broadly as part of a multi-ethnic society: An ethnic group . . . is a segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and to share important segments of a common culture and who,... | |
 | Harry S. Stout, D. G. Hart - 1998 - 513 pages
...those elusive and elastic concepts that lend themselves to many cross-purposes. It generally refers to "a segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and to share important segments of a common culture."15 Ethnic... | |
 | Jack David Eller - 1999 - 386 pages
...supposed aspect to which I refer. Smith, for example, calls up the "myth of common ancestry" by which "members are thought, by themselves or others, to have a common origin." Gurr and Harff show that the myths of ethnicity may contain any number of kinds of stories: "of origin;... | |
 | Open University - 2000 - 184 pages
...factor that complicates the picture as far as secularization is concerned. Ethnicity has been denned as 'a segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and to share important segments of a common culture and FIGURE... | |
 | Chaim I. Waxman - 2001 - 236 pages
...scientific manifestations of the concept. For example, J. Milton Yinger defined an ethnic group as "a segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and to share important segments of a common culture and who,... | |
 | Alison Dundes Renteln - 2005 - 422 pages
...distinction, see Simpson and Yinger, Racial and Cultural Minorities. Yinger defines an ethnic group as "a segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and to share important segments of a common culture and who,... | |
 | Colin Lago - 2005 - 304 pages
...colour' and as a non-racial designation for whites. (Betancourt and Lopez 1993, cited in Carter 1995: 13) A segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and to share important segments of a common culture and who,... | |
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Yinger (1994) as a segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and to share important segments of a common culture and who, in addition, participate in shared activities in which the common... 