Conceptualizing cultural groups and cultural difference: The social mechanism approach

Ethnicities

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 523-544

  Pierik, Roland ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Categorization; Constructivism; Essentialism; Multiculturalism; Social categories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646753421     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796804047472     Document Type: Article

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