McDoom, Omar Shahabudin ORCID: 0000-0001-5660-1903 (2019) Inequality, ethnicity, and status in a ranked society: intermarriage in Mindanao, the Philippines. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 59. pp. 71-80. ISSN 0276-5624
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Abstract
A tension exists between the normative aspiration for greater equality between ethnic and religious groups in society and the empirical reality that ascendant groups benefit from the unequal social order. I explore how this tension manifests in the social sphere by examining how ethnic inequality shapes the formation of interethnic ties in an ethnically-ranked society. I examine the case of Mindanao, a deeply-divided and ethnically-ranked society in the Global South. I find ethnic inequality is associated with both integrative and distancing forces. When ethnic inequality is low, individuals from high-ranked groups tend to inmarry, but low-ranked groups to outmarry. I suggest this divergence reflects the importance of status hierarchies. Intermarriages represent status mobility for subordinate groups but status threat for dominant groups. Ingroup preference intensifies for high-ranked groups because they are anxious to preserve the distinctiveness of group boundaries and their status superiority. I establish these findings using census micro-data on over two million marriages.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-soci... |
Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd |
Divisions: | Government |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2018 12:54 |
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:10 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/90720 |
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