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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Many are the terms used to describe either groups or communities having in common actual or assumed inherited characteristics. So many and so ill-defined are these terms that they stand in the way of proper comparative research, at least when the comparison involves many ethnies, nations, and countries. The article recommends the use of more discriminating criteria to avoid confusion between "origin" and "identity," between "grouping" and "community," and between the ethnic and the national. The author concludes that, for the sake of theory building, hypotheses are, at present, normally better tested by comparing a few well-selected cases than by means of large multistate data sets
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