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Scitus Academics LLC The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilisation by Kianoush Bachmann
Urban culture is the culture of towns and cities.Research on urban cultures
naturally focuses on their defining institution, the city, and the lifeways, or
cultural forms that grow up within cities. The idea of “race” refers to
superficial physical differences that a particular society considers
significant, while “ethnicity” is a term that describes shared culture. And
“minority groups” describes groups that are subordinate or lacking power
in society regardless of skin colour or country of origin.Like race, the term
“ethnicity” is difficult to describe and its meaning has changed over time.
And like race, individuals may be identified or self-identify with ethnicities
in complex, even contradictory, ways. For example, ethnic groups such as
Irish, Italian American, Russian, Jewish, and Serbian might all be groups
whose members are predominantly included in the racial category
“white.”Ethnicity, like race, continues to be an identification method that
individuals and institutions use today—whether through the census,
affirmative action initiatives, non-discrimination laws, or simply in personal
day-to-day relations.Increasingly during the modern era, the trend toward
equal rights and legal protection against racism has steadily reduced the
social stigma attached to racial exogamy.
The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilisation offers the study of race and
ethnic relations by providing a forum for scholars, researchers, advocates,
and policy analysts to present in-depth examinations of critical issues
relevant to and associatedwith racial and ethnic groups. It presents theory
and quantitative and qualitative methodologies in an exploration of race and
ethnic relations. It provides the benefits of knowledge that will assist in
achieving positive structural changes in modern race and ethnic relations.
An array of approaches to understanding contemporary an urban
experience, both lived and imagined, is evaluated with care.It aims to
facilitate a diverse range of critical investigations into pressing questions
considered to be central to current thinking and research.