Hello Gaelle,

I don’t know any of these scales, but... just a question, a was looking for something similar a couple of years ago, when I started working in France, but some colleagues of mine told me that it was not possible in France to do research in these kinds of themes (race, ethnies etc.): is it right? Or is it something like a statement of my lab/university?

Cheers,

Sandro

Hello Sandro,

Actually, you cannot directly ask to your participants their "ethnies" or their "races" but you can study identity and its modalities as well as prejudice or bias toward a defined group and so on... (you can also ask for birth countries for exemple, that may be useful...), does it answer your question ? 

Yes thank you! It answers to mine! It answers also to the fact that these colleagues told me "anyway, you have to face the ethic committee if we decide to do research on these topics".

But at the same time I am sorry i did not answer to yours, I just proposed my own question... sorry :(

Joyeux Noel :)

It's alright ! Joyeux Noël aussi ! 

See my, J. Barry Gurdin's, book chapter, Naturalistic Categories of Ethnic Identity in Quebec," Chapter 9 in Culture, Ethnicity, and Identity: Current Issues in Research, edited by William C. McCready (New York: Academic Press, 1983). It deals with French Canadian and other Canadian ethnic identities. See also, my, J. Barry Gurdin's, and Horst Hutter's article, " 'Some of My Best Friends Are...': The Relationship of Ethnicity to Close Friendship in Montreal," pp. 101-112, of Québec Studies: A Publication of the American Council for Québec Studies, Volume 3, 1985. Regarding Franco-American identity, see my, J. Barry Gurdin's, film review of Bien des mots ont changé les franco-américains de la nouvelle angleterre,  American Anthropologist, Volume 83, Number 3, September 1981. 

Thanks a lot for the references.

Chere Gaëlle Marinthe,

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Barry

J. Barry Gurdin, Ph.D.

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