Identity Politics/Relational Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID23686378
AuthorsLeslie Wasson (Northland Pioneer College, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages1-2
Publication date2015-12-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118663202.wberen446
OpenAlexW2337064912
ISBN9781118663202
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

The subject of identity politics rests within a set of related concepts, such as the distribution of social power, social location and status, and a stratified system in which these interpersonal resources may be valued and used for purposes of individual or group advantage over other individuals or groups. Groups in a stratified system—that is, a social system with a ranked structure of positions—may contend for advantage among themselves. Each group may seek to use group‐level resources in addition to individual characteristics to secure a better or stronger position vis‐à‐vis the members of other groups in the social tapestry. This may not be a result of actual conspiracy: often, people acting in their own perceived self‐interest serve the mutual desires of others in a similar social position.

Aesthetics · Business · Group (periodic table) · Identity (music) · Identity politics · Interpersonal communication · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Power (physics) · Social group · Social identity theory · Social position · Social relation · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology

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