Richard Jenkins

Rethinking ethnicity : arguments and explorations

ARGUMENTS Anthropology, Ethnicity From Tribes to Ethnic Groups Myths of Pluralism Ethnicity Etcetera Categorisation and Power Ideologies of Identification EXPLORATIONS Majority Ethnicity The Cultural Stuff Violence, Language and Politics Nations, Nationalisms RETHINKING ETHNICITY

Rethinking ethnicity: Identity, categorization and power

Abstract This article argues that ethnic identity is to be understood and theorized as an example of social identity in general and that externally‐located processes of social categorization are enormously influential in the production and reproduction of social identities. However, much research concerned with ethnicity, particularly social anthropological research, inspired, whether directly or indirectly, by Barths Ethnic Groups and Boundaries, has concentrated upon internal process of group identification, at the expense of categorization. To acknowledge the necessary role of categorization in the social construction of ethnic identity is also to recognize (a) the importance of power and authority relations (domination) in that process, and (b) a distinction, which is developed in this article, between the nominal and the virtual dimensions of ethnic and other social identities. Finally, the article offers an outline of a substantive research agenda concerned with contexts of social categorization.

Weight-related dosing, timing and monitoring hydrocortisone replacement therapy in patients with adrenal insufficiency

objective  The objective of this study was to examine the variables determining hydrocortisone (HC) disposition in patients with adrenal insufficiency and to develop practical protocols for individualized prescribing and monitoring of HC treatment.

Pierre Bourdieu and the Reproduction of Determinism

This paper is an attempt to critically examine the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu. His theoretical model is rooted in the attempt to dialectically transcend the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism. However, since his scheme remains essentially deterministic and circular - objective structures produce culture, which determines practice, which reproduces those objective structures-this project necessarily fails. The effect of Bourdieus work on certain works in the English cultural studies genre is briefly discussed and Halseys recent empirical critique of Bourdieu is itself criticized.

Ethnic Communities in Business: Strategies for Economic Survival.

Contributors Preface Part I. The Context of Ethnic Business: 1. Ethnic business development in Britain: opportunities and resources Gerald Mars and Robin Ward 2. Small entrepreneurs in contemporary Europe Jeremy Boissevain 3. Small business vulnerability, ethnic enclaves and ethnic enterprise Ellen Auster and Howard Aldrich Part II. Diversity in Ethnic Business: 4. Ethnicity and the rise of capitalism in Ulster Richard Jenkins 5. The development of Jewish business in the United Kingdom Harold Pollins 6. The rise of the Britalian culture entrepreneur Robin Palmer 7. Choice, chance or no alternative? Turkish Cypriots in business in London Sarah Ladbury 8. West Indian business in Britain Frank Reeves and Robin Ward Part III. The Asian Experience: 9. Snakes and ladders: Asian business in Britain Susan Nowikowski 10. Business on trust: Pakistani entrepreneurship in the Manchester garment trade Pnina Werbner 11. Ethnic advantage and minority business development Howard Aldrich, Trevor P. Jones and David McEvoy 12. Acquiring premises: a case study of Asians in Bradford John Cater Part IV. Overview: 13. Ethnic minorities in business: a research agenda Richard Jenkins Notes References Index.

Cannabis use and Social Identity

Cannabis use has become common, but we still understand little about how and why people use cannabis. This paper theorises the relationship between cannabis use and social identity, suggesting that cannabis use is an important aspect of many peoples identities, and that the reasons for, or meaning, of cannabis use change and vary, over time and by situation. If cannabis use is important to peoples identities, then this needs to be understood in the context of a dynamic theory of social identity. Also, issues related to social identity need to be properly understood if we are to formulate rational social policies dealing with cannabis use.

Disability and social stratification.

This paper suggests that, for a variety of reasons, the sociology of social stratification--and, as a consequence, mainstream sociology more generally--has neglected the topic of disability. Using material drawn from a range of sources, it is argued that disability is related in definite ways to social class. Further, it is also argued that disability must be considered as a factor contributing to the production and reproduction of stratification in its own right, independently of class relations. These arguments are further advanced in the course of a more detailed consideration of research evidence concerned with mental handicap. The paper ends with a consideration of the role of non-class factors--specifically social status and citizenship--in the stratification systems of modern industrial societies.

Ethnicity etcetera: Social anthropological points of view

Abstract This article draws upon Barth and Geertz to offer a general anthropological model of ethnicity which emphasizes cultural differentiation constructed in the course of social interaction; which understands ethnicity as neither fixed nor unchanging; and which views ethnic identity as collective and individual, external and internal. Three main areas of anthropological debate are discussed: the primordiality versus instrumentality debate; the relationship between culture and nature; and the relationship between different levels of conceptualization such as the local, the national and the global. A number of difficulties in teaching about ethnicity from a specifically anthropological perpective are discussed. The closing section underlines the continuing importance of anthropologys constructionist point of view in challenging the essentialist common sense that ethnicity and ‘race’ are ‘natural’.

Acquired growth hormone resistance in catabolic states

Catabolic patients are resistant to the actions of GH. This resistance is probably multifactorial in origin. It is likely that both the fasting state and circulating factors, possibly cytokines, are aetiological. Resistance or insensitivity is characterized by raised GH levels, low IGF-I levels and a reduced anabolic response to GH.

Erving Goffman: A major theorist of power?

This article argues that Erving Goffman’s interactional sociology offers many useful insights into what power is and how it actually works, and that in addition to his other reputations we ought to think of Goffman as a significant theorist of power. A critical Goffmanian approach potentially allows us to comprehend the normal, diffuse ubiquity of power while according full recognition to the practices of individuals, whether self‐conscious or habitual, rule‐observant or improvisational. How Goffman’s understanding of power may help us to understand the contemporary realities of the early twenty‐first century is also discussed.