Descriptor English: | Social Construction of Ethnic Identity | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Construcción Social de la Identidad Étnica
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Construção Social da Identidade Étnica | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Construction Sociale del'Identité Ethnique | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
Social Construction of Ethnicity |
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Tree number(s): |
SP3.311.900.353.100 |
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Scope note: | 1) The notion that ethnic identity formation is a developmental process that is shaped by the social context(s) in which it occurs and that differs for minority versus majority group members. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908006) 2) Location, income, gender, age, social class, family history, religion, nationality, etc construct one's identity. The built identities are not equally available or have equally values. (Adaptation of the definition for the more general concept, "Social Construction of Identity", of which the source is http://bit.ly/1DzWCBX) |
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Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||||
History Note: | 2018 |
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DeCS ID: | 57390 | ||||||
Unique ID: | DDCS057390 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents |
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Social Construction of Ethnic Identity
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Concept UI |
FD00062086 |
Scope note | 1) The notion that ethnic identity formation is a developmental process that is shaped by the social context(s) in which it occurs and that differs for minority versus majority group members. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908006) 2) Location, income, gender, age, social class, family history, religion, nationality, etc construct one's identity. The built identities are not equally available or have equally values. (Adaptation of the definition for the more general concept, "Social Construction of Identity", of which the source is http://bit.ly/1DzWCBX) |
Preferred term | Social Construction of Ethnic Identity |
Entry term(s) |
Social Construction of Ethnicity |
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