J Rex
Biographic Data
| ID | 20508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Rex |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rex |
| SIGNATURE | REX J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3265-5872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 122 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 345 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 122 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Stratification and Structure of Composite Colonial Societies
Discrimination, Exploitation, Oppression and Racialism
The conceptualisation of the field of study which is the sociology of race relations is clearly a difficult process. So far we have been concerned only with the kind of situations in which a race relations problem may emerge. But none of these situations is by itself a race relations situation. It is possible to have the varying degrees of freedom and unfreedom which we described in Chapter Two without the problem of labour relations being define…
The Social Institutions of Colonialism
Our approach to the study of the social structures which underly race relations situations differs from that of most of the studies which we reviewed in the previous chapter in two major respects. One is that we take the view that, before going on to talk about the structure of society in general, it is important to look at the social relations which characterise the society’s productive institutions, since these contribute important meanings to …
Minorities in Metropolitan Society
So far we have been considering colonial societies and their social structures only. We have drawn attention to the composite nature of these societies, arguing that they emerge almost universally as the result of conquest, and that they contain segments based upon the ethnic units brought together by the original conquest, even if these segments are nothing more than polar points between which there is a continuous grading of physical and cultur…
Racism
When the World War of 1939–1945 came to an end, the United Nations and its various agencies made a systematic attempt to deal with what were regarded as being the roots of racism and racialism, or more specifically, the roots of problems like anti-semitic theories and practice in Nazi Germany. The easiest way in which these problems could be dealt with was by referring them to committees of intellectuals who concerned themselves with that aspect …
The Theoretical Problem
The problem of race and racism challenges the conscience of the sociologist in the same way as the problem of nuclear weapons challenges that of the nuclear physicist. This is not to say that sociology can dictate to men and nations how they should behave toward one another any more than that the nuclear physicist had some special competence to advise the American President whether or not he should drop the atom bomb on the Japanese. But it is to…
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a British city. Based on a four-year research project in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, the book is a study of race and community relations – political, social, economic and personal – in a major centre of immigrant settlement. It considers the relationship between housing class and class formations and co…
Race Relations in Sociological Theory
Race, Colonialism and the City
John Rex is well known as one of Britain's leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city. In the present book these two related areas are brought together. Professor Rex discusses imperialistic social systems, and examines the position of black people at the colonial and metropolitan ends of thoses systems. This book was first published in 1973
Plural Society
Many of the societies which have problems of multicultural governance are former multi‐ethnic colonies. A theory of such colonial and postcolonial societies draws particularly on the work of J. S. Furnivall and M. G. Smith. According to Furnivall, different ethnic groups in a plural society meet only in the marketplace. This marketplace, however, lacks the characteristics which Durkheim envisaged in his concept of organic solidarity. It lacks the…
Ethnicité et citoyenneté. La sociologie des sociétés multiculturelles
La theorie de l'ethnicite et du racisme, selon l'auteur, s'appuie sur la comprehension des identites et des conflits, et ne se limite pas aux prejuges raciaux, mais remonte a la constitution des empires coloniaux, permettant de comprendre la relation entre identites et citoyennete
Key Problems of Sociological Theory
Empire, Race, and Ethnicity
The year 2005 will mark sixty years since the end of the Second World War. During that time, social scientists have tried to conceptualize the world in terms of race and ethnic relations. Old imperial orders collapsed and a process of liberation from White domination in South Africa had already begun within the context of the Cold War. At the same time, a process of modernization began in the imperial metropolises, leading to the emergence of a k…
The International Politics of Race
Elementos esenciales de una teoría sistemática de las relaciones étnicas
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
La réponse des sciences sociales eu Europe au concept de multiculturalisme
La réponse des sciences sociales en Europe au concept de multiculturalisme Le concept de multiculturalisme est appréhendé en Europe et en Amérique du Nord dans des termes différents. En Europe de l'Ouest, il renvoie à la façon dont les minorités ethniques doivent être intégrées dans des États-nations établis de longue date. Contrairement aux modèles exclusiviste des pays germanophones et assimilationniste à la française, le multiculturalisme a ét…
Multiculturalismo e integración política en el Estado nacional moderno
Este artículo tiene como objetivo exponer algunas de las principales cuestiones que se debaten bajo el término de multiculturalismo en el marco de un contexto político de gran amplitud. Se centra tanto en el tema de las minorías nacionales y sus demandas de autonomía política como en las minorías étnicas inmigrantes y su establecimiento en el seno de los Estados de acogida. Ambos tipos de minorías son percibidos como fuente de problemas en la Eur…
The Basic Elements of a Systematic Theory of Ethnic Relations
The theory of ethnic relations has developed ad hoc on an interdisciplinary basis. It has dealt with ethnicity in small communities, larger ethnic groups or 'ethnies', ethnic nations, modernising nation states, subordinate nationalisms, the establishment of empires, post- imperial situations, transnational migrant communities and the political problems facing modernising nation states in dealing both with subordinate nationalisms and with migrant…
Prologue
Language and the Devolved Modern State in Catalonia
(1998). Language and the Devolved Modern State in Catalonia: A Response to Miquel Strubell. Current Issues In Language and Society: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 190-193
La identidad nacional en el Estado democrático multicultural
The problematic of multinational and multicultural societies
The study of multinationality and the study of the absorption of immigrant ethnic minorities in the British Isles have been dealt with academically in terms of two separate problematics. The first has been dealt with in terms of the theory of nationalism, the second in terms of migration and class. This article attempts to bring the two problematics together in terms of a master concept of empires and multinational states. Starting from this stan…
Ethnic Minorities in the Modern Nation State
The author deals with the problem in political theory of how modern nation states must be structured in order to realise the two separate goals of equality of opportunity and the recognition of cultur
Race and Ethnicity
The plural society in sociological theory
Social Behaviour, Its Elementary Forms
Sociology and the Race Problem
Race and Racism
A working paradigm for race relations research
1981). A working paradigm for race relations research. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-25
Race, Colonialism and the City
National Identity in the Democratic Multi-Cultural State
It has been suggested that there is a crisis of national identity in the advanced welfare states of Western Europe following post-war immigration. The aim of this paper is, first of all, to clarify the concept of national identity in its application to these states prior to this immigration, secondly to analyze the concept of ethnic identity amongst immigrant ethnic groups, and, finally, to look at the kinds of institutions which have evolved to …
Approaches to Sociology
Theoretical Sociology
Ethnic identity and the nation state
The question of ethnic and national identity is one which is addressed in two separate theoretical discourses. One is that of contemporary general sociological theory where it seems to be central to debates about Late Modernism, Post-Modernism and Globalization. The other is in a much more empirically orientated branch of political sociology which is concerned with forms of solidarity and division in the nation state. This paper will be primarily…
Race, Colonialism, and the City
Part 1: Race and the City Part 2: Colonial Migration to Britain, 1945-70 Part 3: Theory and Research on Colonial Migration Part 4: Pluralism, Colonial Conflict and the Black Revolution
Approaches to Sociology
Key Problems of Sociological Theory
Multiculturalism in Europe and America
Although there is a popular discourse about multiculturalism in Europe and North America which suggests that there is a single set of problems, the political problems which multiculturalism addresses are different in these two contexts. As outlined here the problem in Western Europe is that in liberal democracies and social democratic welfare states two questions have to be addressed. One is that of equality, the other the recognition of cultural…
Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
The problematic of multinational and multicultural societies
The study of multinationality and the study of the absorption of immigrant ethnic minorities in the British Isles have been dealt with academically in terms of two separate problematics. The first has been dealt with in terms of the theory of nationalism, the second in terms of migration and class. This article attempts to bring the two problematics together in terms of a master concept of empires and multinational states. Starting from this stan…
The Political Sociology of Multiculturalism and the Place of Muslims in West European Societies
L'A. developpe le concept d'une democratie pluriculturelle basee sur une culture partagee dans le domaine public en s'appuyant sur l'idee d'egalite des chances pour tous. Il distingue cette notion des cultures des domaines prives ou communautaires dans lesquels chacun parle sa propre langue, pratique sa religion et reste dans la ligne des pratiques familiales. Au sein de plusieurs communautes d'immigrants musulmans en Grande-Bretagne, il releve l…
Race Relations in Sociological Theory
The 1981 urban riots in Britain
Value-Relevance, Scientific Laws, and Ideal Types
John Rex, Value-Relevance, Scientific Laws, and Ideal Types: The Sociological Methodology of Max Weber, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring, 1977), pp. 151-166
Key Problems of Sociological Theory
Empire, Race, and Ethnicity
The year 2005 will mark sixty years since the end of the Second World War. During that time, social scientists have tried to conceptualize the world in terms of race and ethnic relations. Old imperial orders collapsed and a process of liberation from White domination in South Africa had already begun within the context of the Cold War. At the same time, a process of modernization began in the imperial metropolises, leading to the emergence of a k…
Multiculturalism and political integration in Birmingham and Bradford
The article discusses multiculturalism and political integration in Birmingham and Bradford, two cities that are amongst the main urban areas of immigrant settlement in England outside London. The article focuses especially on the subject of ethnic mobilization, and describes for each ethnic community in each of the two cities the type and character of their organizations and their role in multi‐culturalist politics. On the basis of the evidence …
Race Relations and the Rediscovery of Sociology
Contemporary Nationalism, Its Causes and Consequences for Europe - A Reply to Delanty’
Whether computer assisted data collection methods should be used for survey data collection is no longer an issue. Most professional research organizations, commercial, government and academic, are adopting these new methods with enthusiasm. Computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) is most prevalent, and computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) is rapidly gaining in popularity. Also, new forms of electronic reporting of data using co…
The Opening of the Apartheid Mind
Collective Behaviour
The Plural Society in Sociological Theory
Weekend in Dinlock
Whose Africa Year
on sunday, March 27, the London police stood shoulder-to-shoulder around South Africa House to guard it against possible attack by the demonstrators in Trafalgar Square. From South Africa came news that the South African police had announced that they would not enforce the pass laws for the
Campaign for a Foreign Policy
In the last decade, military propositions have taken precedence over political principle in foreign policy. Can the campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament become, in the next few months, a campaign for a new foreign policy? And what would such a policy be
Sociological Tradition
Class without Conflict
Baumanville. A Study of an Urban African Community
Books Reviews
Social Behaviour, Its Elementary Forms
Towards a Science of Man in Society
Key Problems of Sociological Theory
Social Change in Modern Africa
Key Problems of Sociological Theory
South Africa
Immigration and Race in British Politics
Emerging Conceptual Frameworks in Family Analysis
Race, Community and Conflict
Disintegration of an Old Culture, the Romanes Lecture
The Social Segregation of the Immigrant in British Cities
Race and Racism
Race, Community, and Conflict
Race Relations
Race as a social category
When the United Nations Organization was set up in 1945, one of its first intellectual tasks was to define the problem of racism which had been one of the major factors in Hitler's rise to power and the subsequent devastation of Europe. Hence UNESCO asked a group of biologists and social scientists to draw up a statement in 1949. The original statement and a further version in 1951 proved, however, to be ambiguous and unsatisfactory in certain re…
Race Relations and the Rediscovery of Sociology
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