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photos of people from various ethnicities. An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
Mely Tan Giok Lan (11 June 1930 – 30 April 2024), professionally known as Mely G. Tan, [2] was an Indonesian sociologist.Tan obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of Indonesia, later receiving a scholarship to study at Cornell University.
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [ 2 ]
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups.Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing (clothing) style and ...
The psychology of social class is a branch of social psychology dedicated to understanding how social class affects individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. While social class has long been a subject of analysis in fields such as sociology, political science, anthropology, medicine and epidemiology, its emergence within the field of psychology is much more recent.
The new classification categorized 1,331 coded ethnicities from the census into more than 600 groups instead of just 31 in the initial classification, [1] completely dissolved the placeholder "ethnic groups from X" categories to better capture the diversity of Indonesia's ethnic demography, [10] corrected misplaced groups and subgroups, [11 ...
Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, [1] is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, [2] [3] with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of a particular ethnic group.
Pierre L. van den Berghe (1933 – 6 February 2019) was a Congolese-born American professor emeritus [2] of sociology and anthropology at the University of Washington, where he had worked since 1965.