Ethnicity, race, nationhood, foreignness, and many other things: Prolegomena to a cultural sociology of difference-based interactions

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 365-389

  Sciortino, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boundary making; Collective groups; Cultural differences; Cultural sociology; Difference based interactions; Difference based phenomena; Social boundaries; Structural anthropology; Symbolic boundaries; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876025862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.14     Document Type: Chapter

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