TY  - CHAP
AB  - The article discusses some general features of the dominant discourses of ethnicity and culture, their historical roots and relations to contemporary forms of multiculturalism. It compares different expressions of cultural belonging in European societies taking Sweden as an example. Departing from the complex meaning of culture the problems of essentialism inherent in concepts of culture and ethnicity are discussed. Sweden, as well as other European multiethnic societies, is undergoing a division along ethnic lines. Social inequalities tend to be understood in terms of cultural difference. Culture is usually connected with ethnicity and race and understood as pure, as an “essence,” as related to some original and eternal ethnic core. In this way important aspects of cultural dynamics in the multiethnic society, not least among young people, are left unobserved. What are usually not recognized are cultural crossings and the emergence of composite identities and their relations to social structure.
VL  - 22
SN  - 978-0-76231-064-7, 978-1-84950-243-6/0195-6310
DO  - 10.1016/S0195-6310(03)22009-3
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-6310(03)22009-3
AU  - Ålund Aleksandra
ED  - Grete Brochmann
PY  - 2003
Y1  - 2003/01/01
TI  - ETHNICITY, SOCIAL SUBORDINATION AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE
T2  - Multicultural Challenge
T3  - Comparative Social Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 245
EP  - 261
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -