Ethnic Statistics: Democratic Issues and Democratic Aspirations

Ethnic categories have only come to be used gradually in sociology in France, and debate on the issue has been quite heated, primarily because such categories are extremely remote from French intellectual tradition. However, they have gained scientific legitimacy by their clear sociological relevanc...

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Auteur principal: Schnapper, Dominique
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Publié: 2011
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spelling cairn-RFS_515_0151RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2010-5-page-151?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.515.0151 Ethnic Statistics: Democratic Issues and Democratic Aspirations Schnapper, Dominique2011 fre Revue française de sociologie | 51 | 5 | 2011-01-15 | p. 151-157 | 0035-2969 RFS_51540 Ethnic categories have only come to be used gradually in sociology in France, and debate on the issue has been quite heated, primarily because such categories are extremely remote from French intellectual tradition. However, they have gained scientific legitimacy by their clear sociological relevance, though the matter of how to define and develop them empirically remains uncertain and complex. In his overview of the debate, Georges Felouzis probes the role of ethnic categories in French sociology from both theoretical and empirical standpoints. Dominique Schnapper takes up what is at issue and at stake for democracy and society in the use of ethnic categories, and Patrick Simon reflects on possible ways of describing and accounting for “ethnic” social relations in French society.Cairn free access
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description Ethnic categories have only come to be used gradually in sociology in France, and debate on the issue has been quite heated, primarily because such categories are extremely remote from French intellectual tradition. However, they have gained scientific legitimacy by their clear sociological relevance, though the matter of how to define and develop them empirically remains uncertain and complex. In his overview of the debate, Georges Felouzis probes the role of ethnic categories in French sociology from both theoretical and empirical standpoints. Dominique Schnapper takes up what is at issue and at stake for democracy and society in the use of ethnic categories, and Patrick Simon reflects on possible ways of describing and accounting for “ethnic” social relations in French society.
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Ethnic Statistics: Democratic Issues and Democratic Aspirations
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title Ethnic Statistics: Democratic Issues and Democratic Aspirations
title_short Ethnic Statistics: Democratic Issues and Democratic Aspirations
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