"In this important study, Yinger . . . successfully demonstrates his central point: countercultures are best understood as a continuous part of human experience and social organization".--"Library Journal".

Countercultures

Politics & Social Sciences

Yinger, J. Milton

Social Sciences

Free Press

<p>We need scarcely note that the topic of this book is the stuff of headlines. Around the world, political, economic, educational, military, religious, and social relations of every variety have a racial or ethnic component. One cannot begin to understand the history or contemporary situation of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Great Britain, Lebanon, Mexico, Canada-indeed, almost any land-without careful attention to the influence of cultural and racial divisions. Preparation of this new edition has brought a strong sense of deja vu, with regard both to the persistence of old patterns of discrimination, even if in new guises, and also to the persistence of limited and constraining explanations. We have also found, however, rich new empirical studies, new theoretical perspectives, and greatly expanded activity and analyses from members of minority groups. Although this edition is an extensive revision, with reference both to the data used and the theoretical approaches examined, we have not shifted from our basically analytical perspective. We strongly support efforts to reduce discrimination and prejudice; but these can be successful only if we try to understand where we are and what forces are creating the existing situation. We hope to reduce the tendency to use declarations and condem nations of other persons' actions as substitutes for an investigation of their causes and consequences.</p>

Racial and Cultural Minorities: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination (Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Simpson, George Eaton

Psychology & Counseling

Springer

Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict? (Suny Series in Ethnicity and Race in American Life)

Almost without exception, the societies of the world are multiethnic. The decline of empires, the appearance of new states, the expansion of communication networks, demographic trends, the weakening of the legitimacy of state authority have brought ethnic relations into the spotlight.The purpose of this book is to develop analytic tools, concepts, perspectives that can be used in a wide variety of circumstances, contributing not only to our understanding, but also to humane policies. The author develops clear and reasonable usages for the central terms: ethnic group, nation, race, pluralism, assimilation, and dissimilation, among others. He documents the range of experiences covered in discussions of ethnicity. Ethnic differences are involved in some of the world’s most intractable conflicts. They are also experienced as the source of the most satisfying and the most essential aspects of life.

Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict? (Suny Series in Ethnicity & Race in American Life)

State Univ of New York Pr

Anthropology; Assimilation (Sociology); Cultural; Ethnic relations; Ethnicity; Non-Fiction; Race relations; Social Science; United States

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Countercultures

Racial and Cultural Minorities: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination (Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services)

Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict? (Suny Series in Ethnicity & Race in American Life)

Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict? (Suny Series in Ethnicity and Race in American Life)