ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the analyses of race and ethnic relations that have developed in Britain during the past 30 years. It looks at the concepts of nation and nationalism and their relationship to ethnicity and the notion of ethnic origin. The chapter raises the issue of gender as it relates to race, ethnicity, and nation, an aspect of social organization rarely mentioned in the current debates. It also examines the role of religion in race and ethnic relations and the development of nationalism. The chapter focuses the significance of the global aspects of apparently similar phenomena largely on Europe. It argues that existing sociological paradigms have much to offer in analyzing race and ethnic relations, gender, nationalism, and religion. The chapter is concerned with the postmodern critique of science brings out a number of issues that are important not only for the substantive fields, but also for the more general social science agenda.
