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The Formation of Ethnic Minority Identities and Their Social Inclusion

SZALÓ, Csaba and Eleonóra HAMAR

Basic information

Original name

The Formation of Ethnic Minority Identities and Their Social Inclusion

Name in Czech

Formování etnických menšinových identit a jejich sociální inkluze

Authors

SZALÓ, Csaba (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Eleonóra HAMAR (703 Slovakia)

Edition

První vydání. Brno, The Challenge of Social Inclusion: Minorities and Marginalised Groups in the Czech Republic, p. 245-265, 20 pp. knihy 1, 2006

Publisher

Barrister and Principal

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/06:00016197

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

80-87029-06-2

Keywords in English

ethnicity; national identity; Bourdieu; social inclusion; citizenship

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 31/3/2010 14:25, Mgr. Lucie Galčanová Batista, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Building on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, we claim that it is essential to reflect on how the practical sense of ethnicity contributes to the social reality of ethnocultural identities, how social actors' practical knowledge about ethnicity contributes to their ethnocultural identity. The complex relationships among various – minority as well as dominant – ethnic identities constitute the "field of ethnicity". As an instrument of social orientation in this field, the sense of ethnicity is not merely a sense of difference, it is a sense of hierarchical distinction, too. Political strategies of social inclusion through integrating minority ethnic identities inevitably modify the whole structure of the field of ethnicity. However, recent strategies of social inclusion by conceiving the cultural diversity of Czech society exclusively in the form of ethnic diversity and by treating the Czech national identity as a distinct form of ethnic identity exclude all other ethnocultural identities from the imagined ethnic community of the Czech nation.

In Czech

V tomto textu sledujeme vytváření kulturních identit minoritních skupin v etnicky různorodém sociálním prostoru České republiky. Spíše než na demografickou deskripci etnicky definovaných skupin a populací se zaměříme na mapování role, kterou tyto instituce a diskurzy hrají v procesech formování etnické identity. V centru naší pozornosti stojí praktické vytváření smyslu pro etnicitu coby zásadního prvku etnických identit.

Links

GP401/06/P290, research and development project
Name: Narativní konstrukce židovských identit
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Narrative construction of Jewish identities
MSM0021622408, plan (intention)
Name: Reprodukce a integrace společnosti (Acronym: IVRIS)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Reproduction and integration of society