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Write short note on Ethnic movements.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Max Weber defined an ethnic group as one whose members share a belief in common descent, and Fredrik Barth (Ethnic Groups and Boundaries, 1969) shifted attention from cultural content to the boundary maintained through interaction with others. An ethnic movement is sustained collective action by such a group, using markers of descent, language, religion, tribe…

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  • What makes a movement "ethnic"
  • Typologies
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