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- Title
The costs and benefits of ethnic identification.
- Authors
Ayalon, Hannah; Ben-Rafael, Eliezer; Sharot, Stephen
- Abstract
Intragroup variation among socio-economic status (SES) categories in ethnic identification is related to three factors: a hierarchy of ethnic prestige; the distribution of ethnic groups in the socio-economic hierarchy; and the openness or closure of ethnic groups with respect to participation in primary groups. The general model is used to predict the relationships between ethnic (eda) identification, based on recent geographical origins, and SES among Jewish groups in Israel. The hypotheses are tested by a survey of four groups, two ‘Middle Eastern’ (Moroccan and Iraqi origins), and two European (Polish and Rumanian origins). Among Middle Eastern groups high SES weakens otherwise high ethnic identifications and among European groups low SES strengthens otherwise low ethnic identifications. The model is used further to generate hypotheses in a wide variety of other ethnic situations and societies.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; EUROPE; GROUP identity; SOCIAL status; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
British Journal of Sociology, 1986, Vol 37, Issue 4, p550
- ISSN
0007-1315
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/590716