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By Carlos E. Santos and Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor

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ISBN-13: 9781433819797

People are a essentially social species. As members, we build our identification via our association, interplay, and identity with higher teams. And in assorted and multiethnic societies like ours, ethnic id takes on an extremely profound value. in recent times, social scientists were more and more learning the which means, approach, and content material of ethnic id, yet those efforts were piecemeal, and the sphere as a complete has suffered from an absence of conceptual readability and methodological rigor.

In this ebook, editors Carlos Santos and Adriana Umaña-Taylor compile a various crew of social and utilized scientists from quite a lot of fields together with academic anthropology, developmental, group and social psychology, and sociology. jointly, they examine the method through which ethnic identification is shaped and maintained during the lifespan. Authors current qualitative and quantitative techniques to conceptualizing and measuring ethnic identification, together with narrative psychology and ethnographic methods, cognitive schemas and semi-structured interviews, in addition to analyses of social networks. all through, authors current contextually-rich debts of ethnic id that retain the focal point the place it belongs, at the lived event of actual humans.

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1999). Mexican-American children’s representations of ethnic prejudice. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 21, 387–404. , & Way, N. (2009). A preliminary analysis of associations among ethnic-racial socialization, ethnic discrimination, and ethnic identity among urban sixth graders. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 19, 558–584. , . . Ethnic and Racial Identity in the 21st Century Study Group. (2014). Ethnic and racial identity in adolescence: Implications for psychosocial, academic, and health outcomes.

Thus, drawing on a narrative model of identity, and integrating findings from narrative research with survey-based research, can lead to greater insights about ethnic identity development than we have seen with much of the extant research. I provide three examples in the next section of this chapter. EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS: THREE INSIGHTS FROM NARRATIVES In selecting the insights to describe in detail, I elected not to simply reiterate the findings from my published narrative research (Syed, 2010a, 2010b, 2012a; Syed & Azmitia, 2008, 2010).

1037/ a0031105 Yip, T. (2005). Sources of situational variation in ethnic identity and psychological well-being: A Palm Pilot study of Chinese American students. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1603–1616. 1177/ 0146167205277094 Yip, T. (2014). Ethnic identity in everyday life: The influence of identity development status. Child Development, 85, 205–219. 12107 26 adriana j. , 2014). , 2014; Smith & Silva, 2011). Other research has suggested that ethnic identity contributes to the ability to cope with the harmful effects of discrimination (Yip, Gee, & Takeuchi, 2008; but see Yoo & Lee, 2008).

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