The Sociology of Ethnicity
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: May 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780761940425
Subjects: Ethnography; Sociology - General; Politics and culture; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Sociology / General; Ethnicity; Ethnic conflict
First sentence: Although the terms 'ethnicity' has its roots in the Greek term ethnos/ethnikos, which was commonly used to describe pagans, that is non-Hellenic and, later, non-Jewish (Gentile) or non-Christian, second-class peoples, its academic and popular use is fairly modern.