Sociology Unit 1 - Ethnicity Studies

• Contributions black people have made to mainstream popular culture - dance, music, dress
• No single black identity/culture
• Common themes run through all black culture - awareness of historical experience of slavery.

• White culture
• Felt unfairness - every culture celebrated but their own
• Need ways to allow whites to be proud of their own cultural traditons
• In a way that is not in a racist manner and doesnt exclude people from other ethnic minorities

• Many different ways of being black
• 'symbolic markers' of being black
• certain styles of dress, music, walking, talking to make them instantely recongisable as black

•  Great deal of freedom and can construct new identities
• Cultures - not fixed tradition
• Want to try new 'cultural masks', new roles, different styles
• lots of inter-racial friendships and cultural borrowing
• bring black and whites closer together

• 1/5th Asian girls secretly dating boys
• dating disaproved by older Asian generation

• family = site of conflict between Asian parents and their children
• children mix with others who have different values
• parents see these values as alien

conflict of western clothes, arranged marraiges and question of freedom

• Afro-Carribean's
• skin colour = important source of identity
• black identity celebrated as a response to racial exclusion and stereotyping by whites

• Afro-Caribbean's
• adopt identies based on ethnic history/popular culture to challenge exclusion
• gangster rap = symbolize feelings of white oppression.

• conflict between asian parents and children is exaggerated
• all teenagers have conflict with parents
• can navigate between asian and mainstream culture easily
• handle two cultures without many problems

• peer pressure increased influence on shaping identiy
• triple quandary
• feel don't fit into mainstream culture, feel rejected by it
• anxious how they are percieved by black peers so position themselves in a positive way - highly masculine and deviant identity
• aspects in identity from media - rapstars - imitating role models
• acceptance from peers replaces rejection from fathers, education system, whites etc

• mosque - main place for education and religious activities
• influence way parents educate and rear children
• want seperate schools (faith schools)
• teachers want students to be critical
• could potentially go against traditions especially view on arranged marriages

• Values of Families
• 1. - children brought up to be loyal and respect their elders, and be inter-dependant
• 2. - choice of education left to parents
• 3. - choice of marriage partner left to parents
• 4. - religious training important as stressed humility rather than self pride and assertiveness
• 5. - role of mother tongue - crucial to maintain links between generations