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On Being Different : Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream

by: Kottak, Conrad Phillip; Kozaitis, Kathryn A.

On Being Different : Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream

by: Kottak, Conrad Phillip; Kozaitis, Kathryn A.

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9780072417166
ISBN 10:
0072417161
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/18/2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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On Being Different provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and Canada. Kottak and Kozaitis clarify essential issues, themes, and topics in the study of diversity, including ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The book also presents an original theory of multiculturalism, showing how human agency and culture work to organize and change society. The authors use rich and varied ethnographic examples, from North America and abroad, to help students apply the material to their own lives, and thus gain a better understanding of diversity and multiculturalism.

List of Boxes

xiii

About the Authors

xiv

Preface

xvii

Introduction

(10)

American Culture and Cultures

(1)

The Anthropological Perspective

(4)

Science, Humanities, and Mirror for Humanity

(2)

Culture

(19)

Culture and Its Aspects

(8)

Unifying Factors in Contemporary American Culture

(3)

Football

(1)

Anthropology and American Pop Culture

(1)

Mechanisms of Cultural Change

(1)

The Uses of Culture

(2)

Globalization, Identity, and Affinity

(14)

Identity Politics and Globalization

(3)

The Decline Of Government

(1)

Trade and Globalization

(1)

Antiglobalization

(1)

Multilocality and Media

(2)

NGOs and Rights Movements

(3)

Diasporas and Postmodernity

(1)

Agency

(2)

The Multicultural Society

(19)

The Power of Culture

(1)

Conceptualizing Cultural Diversity

(4)

Assimilation

(1)

Pluralism

(1)

Multiculturalism

(1)

Theory of Multiculturalism

(8)

Sociocultural Transformation

(1)

Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream

(3)

The Center of Cultural Production

(1)

Agency and Resistance

(2)

Multiculturalism: The Master Movement

(4)

Ethnicity

(21)

Ethnicity and Social Statuses

(3)

Status Shifting

(2)

Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities

(2)

Nationalities and Imagined Communities

(1)

Ethnic Tolerance and Accommodation

(6)

Cultural Assimilation

(1)

The Plural Society

(1)

Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity

(5)

Roots of Ethnic Conflict

(7)

Prejudice and Discrimination

(2)

Chips in the Mosaic

(2)

Aftermaths of Oppression

(3)

Race: Its Social Construction

(20)

Race and Racism

(4)

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

(1)

The Cultural Construction of Race

(12)

Hypodescent: Race in the United States

(3)

Changes in North American Racial Classification

(2)

Not Us: Race in Japan

(3)

Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil

100

(4)

Race: Its Biological Dimensions

104

(17)

Racial Classification

106

(3)

Explanatory Approaches to Human Biological Diversity

109

(2)

Explaining Skin Color

109

(2)

Lactose Intolerance

111

(1)

The Case for Cultural versus Biological Determination of Physical Attractiveness and Sports Abilities

111

(3)

The Case for Cultural versus Biological Determination of Intelligence

114

(7)

Testing and Affirmative Action

118

(3)

Religion

121

(21)

Church and State

123

(2)

Politics and Religion

125

(1)

Religion and Solidarity

125

(4)

Ritualized Changes in Status and Identity

126

(3)

Religious Diversity

129

(7)

The World's Major Religions

131

(2)

Protestant Values

133

(2)

Social Control

135

(1)

Religion and Change

136

(6)

New and Alternative Religious Movements

137

(3)

Secular Religion

140

(2)

Gender

142

(18)

Nature, Nurture, and Gender

144

(2)

Gender Roles, Stratification, and the Economy

146

(7)

Gender among Foragers (Hunter-Gatherers)

147

(2)

Gender among Horticulturists

149

(1)

Reduced Gender Stratification---Matrilineal, Matrilocal Societies

149

(1)

Reduced Gender Stratification---Matrifocal Societies

150

(1)

Increased Gender Stratification---Patrilineal-Patrilocal Societies

151

(1)

Homosexual Behavior among the Etoro

152

(1)

Patriarchy and Violence

153

(1)

Gender and Industrialism

153

(5)

The Feminization of Poverty

156

(2)

What Determines Variation in Gender Issues?

158

(2)

The Impact of the Mass Media on Sex-Gender Roles

158

(2)

Sexual Orientation

160

(18)

The Nature and Culture of Sexual Orientation

162

(4)

Changing Patterns and Views of Sexual Orientation

166

(2)

Varieties of Human Sexuality

168

(2)

The Social Construction of Sexual Orientation

170

(3)

The Political Organization of Sexual Orientation

173

(5)

Age and Generation

178

(18)

Ages and Cohorts

181

(4)

The Generation Gap

185

(2)

An Aging Population

187

(3)

The Aging Process

190

(2)

Intergenerational Conflict

192

(1)

The Social Construction of Childhood

193

(3)

Bodies, Fitness, and Health

196

(16)

Culture and the Body

199

(5)

Well and Sick Bodies

204

(3)

People with Disabilities

207

(2)

Mental Health

209

(1)

Health and Healing in Cyberspace

210

(2)

Class

212

(19)

Class in America

214

(1)

Forms of Socioeconomic Stratification

215

(5)

Industrial Stratification

216

(1)

Poverty and Homelessness

217

(3)

Closed Class Systems

220

(1)

Domination, Hegemony, and Resistance

220

(3)

Class and Values across Cultures

223

(5)

Portrayals of Class in the Mainstream Media

225

(3)

Diversity within Social Categories

228

(3)

Where We Live

231

(19)

Regional Diversity

234

(1)

Geographic Mobility

235

(6)

Cities and Urbanites

241

(2)

Region and the Income Gap

243

(2)

Urban Ethnic Groups, Poverty, and Crime

245

(2)

The American Periphery

247

(3)

Speech

250

(15)

Linguistic Relativism

252

(1)

Sociolinguistics: The Study of Linguistic Diversity

253

(9)

Gender Speech Contrasts

254

(2)

Stratification and Symbolic Domination

256

(3)

Black English Vernacular (BEV), a.k.a. Ebonics

259

(3)

Education and Linguistic Diversity

262

(3)

Family Background

265

(18)

Changing North American Families

268

(1)

All Sorts of Families

269

(5)

Family and Work

274

(1)

Media and the Family

275

(2)

The Cult of Childhood ``Success''

277

(3)

Kinship and Class

280

(2)

Family Diversity

282

(1)

Conclusion

283

Using Culture to Build Humanity

285

From Civil Rights to Human Rights

288

Human Agency as a Prime Mover of Social Reform

290

Glossary

G-1

Bibliography

Photo Credits

P-1

Index

I-1

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