SCY2042

Sociology of ethnicity and minority relations

Robert Wolfgramm

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Peninsula
* Prerequisites: First-year SCY sequence or equivalent

Objectives On completion of this subject, students should have acquired a set of theoretical concepts and research tools useful for analysing ethnic minorities and majorities; obtained a clearer understanding of how pluralistic societies can cohere and persist; gained an appreciation of the choices and problems indigenous and immigrant peoples face in their attempts to live with each other and their host societies; gained a clearer understanding of their own identity and position in terms of ethnic and minority factors.

Synopsis Migrant and indigenous relations; concepts and models of intergroup relations; politics, meanings and experiences of ethnicity/ethnic identity and ethnocentrism in the context of multiculturalism; social implications of an increasingly plural society.

Assessment One essay (2500 words): 40%
* One research report (2500 words): 40%
* Test (1 hour): 20%

Prescribed texts

Hutchinson J and Smith A D (eds) Ethnicity OUP, 1996