Professional Documents
Culture Documents
by
Sinisa Malesevic
Ganda Upaya
Department of Sociology
Universitas Indonesia
Ethnicity
• Ethnicity is not a thing or a collective asset
of a particular group; it is a social relation
in which social actors perceive themselves
and are perceived by others as being
culturally distinct collectivities
(Malesevic,2004: 4);
• Cultural difference framed as ethnic
difference is sociologically relevant only
when it is active, mobilized and dynamic,
and not a mere difference;
Ethnicity
• The focus of ethnicity is to study cultural
boundaries within social interactions
between ethnic groups;