Ethnic group is a forced social category usually thought of in terms of essence in everyday life and in psychological theory. Essentializing is a powerful representational tool which fuels ethnocentrism, xenophobia and discrimination. In this paper, I will argue that practical and analytical discourse of identity, difference and exclusion, serves as carrier of essentialist views on ethnic group membership. If the group is seen as natural and unchangeable, and if one cannot choose whether or not to belong to a certain ethnic group, then ethnic membership can only be seen as unchangeable, natural and stable, i.e. permanent part of one`s identity. Identity language practice in turn (re)produces simplified essentialist views on ethnicity...
Abstract. The study aimed to investigate coexistence or conflict between ethnic and class identity, ...
This paper offers an alternative theoretical consideration of ethnic identification in psychology. M...
The many critical approaches to an 'ethnicity framework' have fallen short of a very possible conclu...
The question of identity is fundamental to human life. Who am I, as a biological and psychological...
AbstractEthnicity is today a controversial concept in social sciences. The belonging to an ethnic gr...
The academic literature for the past several decades suggests an increased tendency to conceive “eth...
To be human is to have an identity. Indeed, it is what ethnicity is about. However, as a theoretical...
Social psychologists studying intergroup perceptions have shown an increasing interest in essentiali...
Ethnicity has received much empirical and theoretical attention in the social sciences. Yet, it has ...
The present article intends to examine how ethnic minority group members account for their ethnic id...
Ethnicity has received much empirical and theoretical attention in the social sciences. Yet, it has ...
This Bachelor’s thesis examines the individual motivations behind shaping an ethnic identity in orde...
This article advances a non-groupist understanding of the foundation, operation and self-perpetuatio...
Ethnicity, defined as a group identity based on shared memories, traditions, cultural values, religi...
This paper offers an alternative theoretical consideration of ethnic identification in psychology...
Abstract. The study aimed to investigate coexistence or conflict between ethnic and class identity, ...
This paper offers an alternative theoretical consideration of ethnic identification in psychology. M...
The many critical approaches to an 'ethnicity framework' have fallen short of a very possible conclu...
The question of identity is fundamental to human life. Who am I, as a biological and psychological...
AbstractEthnicity is today a controversial concept in social sciences. The belonging to an ethnic gr...
The academic literature for the past several decades suggests an increased tendency to conceive “eth...
To be human is to have an identity. Indeed, it is what ethnicity is about. However, as a theoretical...
Social psychologists studying intergroup perceptions have shown an increasing interest in essentiali...
Ethnicity has received much empirical and theoretical attention in the social sciences. Yet, it has ...
The present article intends to examine how ethnic minority group members account for their ethnic id...
Ethnicity has received much empirical and theoretical attention in the social sciences. Yet, it has ...
This Bachelor’s thesis examines the individual motivations behind shaping an ethnic identity in orde...
This article advances a non-groupist understanding of the foundation, operation and self-perpetuatio...
Ethnicity, defined as a group identity based on shared memories, traditions, cultural values, religi...
This paper offers an alternative theoretical consideration of ethnic identification in psychology...
Abstract. The study aimed to investigate coexistence or conflict between ethnic and class identity, ...
This paper offers an alternative theoretical consideration of ethnic identification in psychology. M...
The many critical approaches to an 'ethnicity framework' have fallen short of a very possible conclu...