On the Irrelevance of Ethnicity in Children's Organization of Their Social World

Autor/in	Sedano, Livia Jimenez
Titel	On the Irrelevance of Ethnicity in Children's Organization of Their Social World
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 19 (2012) 3, S.375-388 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568212445226
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Children; Social Environment; Educational Environment; Family Environment; Peer Relationship; Play; Anthropology; Ethnicity; Role; Social Life; Socialization; Self Concept; Classification; Childhood Attitudes; Social Status; Social Networks; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Soziales Umfeld; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Familienmilieu; Peer-Beziehungen; Spiel; Anthropologie; Ethnizität; Rollen; Soziales Leben; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Selbstkonzept; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Sozialer Status; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Spanien
Abstract	When studying the ways of structuring social life in general, and the socialization processes of children in particular, ethnicity is often taken for granted as a basic axis along which people distribute themselves into groups. Most anthropological studies describe and classify agents in ethnic terms. This article argues that ethnicity is not always a relevant principle of order in the social fields of children, at least in the ethnographic cases studied. The article provides a critical reflection on the theoretical frameworks and methodologies based on the idea of "ethnic groups" as a starting point for doing anthropological research. (Contains 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10