Insiders and Outsiders

Although overtly concerned with overseas cultural groups, this paper considers social systems in terms of ethnic boundaries, structures, variables and policies. Systems of ethnic status structuralization are outlined; a classification of historic ethnic status systems is proposed; correlates of ethnic identity are formulated; types of boundary patterns are associated with types of ethnic orientation; and the pressures toward ethnic solidarity are associated with degrees of societal specialization and division of labor. The orientation of the paper is historical, cross-cultural and structural

Aesthetics · Cultural identity · Division of labour · Economic geography · Ethnic group · Ethnic history · Geography · Identity (music) · Political science · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Social solidarity · Sociology · Solidarity · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology