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Sources of Palestinian Nationalism: A Study of a Palestinian Camp in Lebanon

1977; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2535776

1533-8614

Rosemary Sayigh,

Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

Relatively few empirical studies have been carried out into the development of consciousness of shared identity in oppressed or groups. The names of Anselm Strauss, Peter Berger, and Timotsu Shibutani spring immediately to mind as sociologists who have emphasized the importance of group identity in political movements. I Yet, on the whole, identity has remained a psychologically defined, individual-oriented concept in American sociology, closely associated with ideas of marginal man, selfconception, and the divided self. Assumptions of a tendency towards assimilation have guided most studies of subordinate groups, and have deflected research attention from causes and processes of group differentiation. Psychological approaches also predominated in the field of ethnic/race relations, at least until the 1960's. Blumer attacked the idea of prejudice as an individual property, and called for greater attention to group position in a paper published in 1958.2 Van den Berghe, introducing more than a decade later a symposium of papers on inter-group relations3 notes the poverty of