Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations

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Paperback | 24 October 1988

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This book brings together internationally known scholars from a wide range of disciplines and theoritical traditions all of whom have made significant contributions to the field of race and ethic relations. As well as identifying important and persistent points of controversy, the collection reveals a complementary and multifaceted approach to theorisation. The theories represented include contributions from the perspective of sociology, social anthropology, sociobiology and social psychology. These range from the established perspectives of Marx and Weber through the more recent interventions of rational choice theory, symbolic interactionism and identity structure analysis.

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' ... by collecting in one volume such a diversity of perspectives, the book serves an important function and is a useful guide to the literature on race and ethnic theory.' Contemporary Sociology 'Understanding comes before action and few scholars have approached Rex's lifetime contribution to our understanding of race and ethnic relations.' The Sociological Review

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List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Controversies and continuities in race and ethnic relations theory	p. 1
Intersecting strands in the theorisation of race and ethnic relations	p. 20
Epistemological assumptions in the study of racial differentiation	p. 42
The role of class analysis in the study of race relations - a Weberian perspective	p. 64
Varieties of Marxist conceptions of 'race', class and the state: a critical analysis	p. 84
Class concepts, class struggle and racism	p. 110
A political analysis of local struggles for racial equality	p. 131
Ethnicity and Third World development: political and academic contexts	p. 153
Social anthropological models of inter-ethnic relations	p. 170
Pluralism, race and ethnicity in selected African countries	p. 187
Ethnicity and the boundary process in context	p. 226
Ethnicity and the sociobiology debate	p. 246
Rational choice theory and the study of race and ethnic relations	p. 264
The 'Chicago School' of American sociology, symbolic interactionism, and race relations theory	p. 280
The operationalisation of identity theory in racial and ethnic relations	p. 299
Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 345
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