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Ethnic Nationalisms and the Cultural Dialectics: A Key to the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Joseph W. Scott
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Culture, in the simplest language, refers to the thoughtways, feelingways, and actionways of a people, be they a nation or a subsociety. As a concept, it refers to the established orientations which a people has for managing its relationships in the collectivity and its relationships to the forces and conditions of the physical environment. The key elements of culture are beliefs, sentiments, norms, and values. Almost all behavioral scientists would include in the realm of culture all the cognitive, affective, behavioral, and value orientations shared by a people. With these basic elements of culture, a people constructs complexes which we call ideologies, social structures, institutions, organizations, laws, and policies.

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Society
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The Review of Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 1972 , pp. 55 - 68
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1972

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References

1 See a discussion of this experience by The Puerto Rican Forum, A Study of Poverty Conditions in the New York Puerto Rican Community (New York, 1970)Google Scholar.

2 For a discussion of cultural dialectics see Touré, Sékou, “A Dialectical Approach to Culture,” The Black Scholar, I (11, 1969), 11–26CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 See Gordon, Milton M., Assimilation in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964)Google Scholar.

4 See Essien-Udom, E. U., Black Nationalism (New York: Dell, 1969)Google Scholar.

5 See Imari, Abubakari Obadele, Revolution and Nation Building (Detroit: Songhay, 1970)Google Scholar.

6 See Camejo, Antonio, Documents of the Chicano Struggle (New York: Pathfinder, 1971)Google Scholar, and Compean, Mario and Gutierrez, Jose Angel, La Raza Unida Party in Texas (New York: Pathfinder, 1970)Google Scholar.

7 For a discussion of Borinquen Nationalism see Party, Young Lords, Palante (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971)Google Scholar.