Race and ethnicity and the controversy over the US census
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The development of new racial and ethnic categories for the US census in 2000 is discussed, with a focus on the controversy over census undercounts in relation to racial and ethnic classification. Topics include measurement of the census undercount, race and ethnicity in relation to the 1990 census, the federal government's standards for classification of race and ethnicity, history of racial classifications, civil rights in relation to self identification, and the relation between undercount controversies and race classification.
Publication Name: Current Sociology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0011-3921
Year: 2000
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Introduction: The ethics of complexity
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The ISA Working Group 2003 focuses on the embodied individual in society as well as on the role culture and memory collective as well as individual play in the individual's actions and decisions. The aim of the Working Group is to expand the specifically sociological differences from the anthropological analysis of the body in non-western societies.
Publication Name: Current Sociology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0011-3921
Year: 2005
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The Rift in the subject: a late global modernist dilemma
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A rift composed of an ambivalent moment stationed between tradition and the assumptions of modernity is examined. Further, an attempt is made to explain the subjective horizons of young Muslims living in the USA as they engage forms of collective action that have taken on global proportion and meaning.
Publication Name: Current Sociology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0011-3921
Year: 2004
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