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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED120307 AUTHOR: Shimahara, Nobuo K.
TITLE: Equal Social Participation: Neoethnicity and Culture
Heritage Studies.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 10 p.; Paper presented at Intercultural
Communications
Meeting (New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 1975)
ABSTRACT: One of the basic problems men and women confront
in any complex is the limitation imposed on their access to
institutions of their society. How the problem of of
institutional or structural access is related to ethnicity
and ethnic studies is the focus of this essay. Concern for
ethnicity and ethnic studies in education can be traced to
the rejection of the assumption that equal participation in
American society depends upon assimilation within the
mainstream--resulting in neoethnicity, or the
revitalization of ethnic cohesiveness with emphasis on the
symbolic salience of each group. Ethnic studies are based
on a cultural view of ethnicity. Cultural heritage studies
stress the rediscovery of ethnic diversity so as to
increase appreciation of each group. Their emphasis is on
attitudinal and behavioral modification rather than on
institutional reform. Cultural heritage studies based on a
cultural view are misdirected since minorities demands for
equal structural access lends support to a structural view.
Cultural heritage studies need a bi-focal perspective of
both cultural and structural views of ethnicity--a new
vision focusing upon, on the one hand, the institutional
conditions which determine the patterns of ethnic groups'
adaptation to the larger society, and, on the other, the
cultural characteristics of these groups. (Author/AM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Acculturation-; Cultural-Awareness;
Cultural-Differences; Cultural-Influences; Cultural
Pluralism; Ethnic-Status; Ethnocentrism-; Institutional
Role; Minority-Groups; Social-Change; Social-Stratification
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Background; *Ethnic-Groups;
*Ethnic-Studies; *Social-Mobility; *Social-Structure
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