Using Intensive Interview Data: Teaching Concepts of Ethnicity and Ethnic Group Relations

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry H. Brownstein
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Intensive Interview

Concluding Observations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Fennell
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Racial Ideologies ◽  
Practical Level ◽  
The U.S

These case studies of the Virginia and Illinois regions have been presented with diverging themes of ethnicities and racism. At a practical level, analytic concepts of ethnicities can be employed effectively to understand some places, times, and populations. One should expect change in these social networks, often within just a few decades. For other times, locations, and communities, the impacts of racial ideologies make the analysis of racism a more productive approach. That contrast of ethnicity and racism arises in larger-scale debates concerning the usefulness of these two conceptual frameworks. Researchers have frequently examined the question of whether an analytic concept of racism is better replaced by concepts of ethnic group relations. No consensus has emerged over decades of debates. Scholars in some regions are affected by “post-racial” political agendas that influence them to depart from the terminology of racism in favor of alternative concepts of ethnicities. Such initiatives have impacted researchers in South Africa. They often frame their research within the broader social context of the post-racial policies of the Mandela presidency and later administrations. The U.S. certainly has not entered such a post-racial era.

scholarly journals Promoting ethnic relations in the current Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
pp. 096-106
Author(s):  
Mohamed Shemsedin Ziyad
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ethnic Organization

One of the greatest challenges of Ethiopia is to promote wider societal development because the notions of ethnicity are fall prey to atomized competitions, hostility, or conflicts. These fraudulent competitions are directed in the struggle for political power, public offices, and socioeconomic opportunities by mobilizing their constituencies to think except ‘their own members’ are in power, they are unable to secure the national benefits. Nevertheless, ethnicity does neither inherently revolutionary nor impermeable, as many multi-ethnic nations do not have major troubles with their diversities but are a potential factor for cultivation. Understanding the psychological perspective that improves ethnic group relations of the family can assist notify involvements to enhance ethnic group members of the family. This seminar examines social psychological manners of ethnic perception and relation which are fundamental to promote ethnic members of the family and discusses how those forces may be forwarded to enhance ethnic organization members of the family, regularly through the enchaining of high-quality ethnic organization contact. I similarly keep in mind how promoting ethnic relationships advantaged and deprived corporations may also reply differently at the manner to involvements, and how a focal point frequently on improving high-quality ethnic group attitudes may also fall brief of ameliorating structural inequality among societies. I pick out modern conceptual and realistic demanding situations and advocate guidelines for the future. The result of the study shows that social psychology contributes undoubtedly to society via promoting social harmony, positive, cooperative relationships among contributors of various companies reduces tension and may generalize the significance of organization memberships, improves shared identities, and tremendously apprehending organization variations. Emphasized ethnic group relations at the local area by relating to Eastern Hararghe Zone of Amahara, Oromo, Somali, and other ethnics where living, cultures particularly, in Jarso Woreda is on the individual, which in its worst forms of ethnic relations can foster selfishness or indifference to others. However, promoting a sense of relations goes beyond a single ethnic group rather focus on interdependence and relationships.

scholarly journals Status Change Model of Interethnic Riots

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Sandra Marker
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Change Model ◽  
Status Change ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Intergroup Interactions ◽  
Trigger Event ◽  
The Status

The status change riot model opens up a new avenue of riot explanation. One that takes into consideration ethnic group relations and factors of group status and honor—i.e., dignity. The riot model asserts that the potential for a riot arises when new and old concepts about group statuses, and as such, ideas about appropriate intergroup behaviors, give rise to disputative intergroup interactions. The model affirms that a trigger event either by itself or in accumulation with other events drives actors to a dignity threshold that prompts them to riot. The model further relates that, once started, a riot will follow a general riot pattern that ends in either a status resolution or an increased strain in ethnic group relations.

Putting Out Fires: Understanding the Developmental Nature and Roles of Inmate Gangs in the Philippine Overcrowded Jails

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 3509-3535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymund E. Narag ◽  
Sou Lee
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Order Maintenance ◽  
Intensive Interview ◽  
Conflict Mediation ◽  
Metro Manila ◽  
Prison Community

Utilizing intensive interview data from inmates in one of the most overcrowded and underresourced jails in Metro Manila, Philippines, this article explores the origins and roles of inmate pangkats (a derivative of gangs) in jail management. Responding to institutional deficiencies, such as police misconduct and court case delays, and structural shortages, such as lack of space, operational resources, and personnel, this article investigates how the pangkats supplement jail management and help keep the jail operations afloat. Specifically, this article documents how the pangkats put out fires: their intricate roles in mitigating pains of imprisonment, conflict mediation, order maintenance, and instilling discipline among their members. This article also details the emergence of a give-and-take relationship that develops between and among the pangkats and jail officials that are reflective of the Philippine sociocultural realities. Implications to theory on prison community and policy on gang management in a developing country context are discussed.

scholarly journals Inter-Ethnic Friendship and Hostility between Roma and non-Roma Students in Hungary: The Role of Exposure and Academic Achievement

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Hajdu ◽  
Gábor Kertesi ◽  
Gábor Kézdi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Closing The Achievement Gap ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Using Data

AbstractThis study examines friendship and hostility relations between Roma students and the ethnically homogeneous non-Roma majority in Hungarian schools. Using data on friendship and hostility relations of 15-year-old students from 82 schools, the study focuses on the interaction between exposure to the other ethnic group and academic achievement of Roma students. High-achieving Roma students are shown to have significantly more friends and fewer adversaries than low-achieving ones, due to better inter-ethnic relations while having similar within-ethnic group relations. As a result, higher exposure to Roma students translates to more friendship and less hostility from non-Roma students in environments where more of the Roma students have higher achievement. Therefore, policies helping the achievement of Roma students can have immediate as well as long-term positive effects. Simulations suggest that a mixed policy of desegregation and closing the achievement gap may best foster positive inter-ethnic relations.

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