Journal article
‘Controlled Disruptions’: How Ethnic Organizations Shape White Ethnic Symbolic Identities
Cultural sociology, v 6(1), pp 93-112
Mar 2012
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
While connecting individual ethnic practices with global identity projects remains challenging, ethnic organizations provide a possible place where the negotiation and enactment of both occur. This article investigates how organized performances and competitions of symbolic white ethnic identity become structurally similar at a global level while also at the same time integrating disruptions at the local level. Specifically, the author argues that a hierarchy of particular Irish step dance practices emerged through controlled disruptions within and among dance academies and regulatory organizations in the social field of Irish step dance, sanctioning modified forms of Irishness believed to be most competitive in Ireland. This article examines the role that organizations play in sanctioning world models and controlling disruptions in the everyday symbolic enactment of Irish identity.
Metrics
Details
- Title
- ‘Controlled Disruptions’: How Ethnic Organizations Shape White Ethnic Symbolic Identities
- Creators
- Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick - University of Chicago
- Publication Details
- Cultural sociology, v 6(1), pp 93-112
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute; Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000299995200006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84856735744
- Other Identifier
- 991020099436404721
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Web of Science research areas
- Sociology