Ethnicity is a fundamental category of social organization which is based on membership defined by a sense of common historical origins and which may also include shared culture, religion or language. It is to be distinguished from kinship in so far as...

Ethnic Identity An individual's feeling of belonging to a particular ethnic group. The adjective ethnic is derived from the Greek noun ethnos, which means race, people, nation, and tribe. Although the modern term has a narrower connotation,...

More than 80 per cent of contemporary states that comprise the United Nations are ethnically plural, in that they contain two or more mobilized ethnic communities. These communities compete, sometimes by civic methods, sometimes by violence for...

Chapman, Graeme. One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: A History of Churches of Christ in Australia. 2nd ed. Glen Iris, Victoria: Vital Publications, 1989. Cox, Claude E., ed. The Campbell-Stone Movement in Ontario: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ,...

An ethnic group or ethnicity is a population of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.[1] Ethnicity is also defined from the recognition by others as a distinct group[2] and...

The Lords did their best to amend the Religious Hatred Bill last week. Their best, however, is unlikely to make much difference. The government is determined to press ahead with the new legislation despite its defeat by 149 votes in the Lords. Lord Falconer...

The expatriate Australian political scientist Frank Salter has written a very important--and a brilliant--book (1) that deserves the close attention not only of evolutionists and social scientists, but of policy-makers as well. As E.O. Wilson--the Harvard professor who founded the field of sociobiology...

Essay on why Minorities should engage in society's leadership roles.

"Symbolic ethnicity" is a term coined by Herbert Gans. It refers to ethnicity that is individualistic in nature and without real social cost for the individual. These symbolic identifications are essentially leisure time activities, rooted in nuclear family traditions reinforced by voluntary enjoyable aspects of being ethnic