- Are you confused by academic jargon? - Do you know your `discourse' from your `dialectic'? - Can you tell the difference between `anomie' and `alienation'? The Social Science Jargon Buster tackles the most confusing concepts in the social sciences, brea

Hybridity

Core definition

A complicated entanglement of language, culture, ethnicity, and race that leads to new transcultural forms of being and is the product of forces such as migration, colonization, and globalization.

Longer explanation

Us and them… that's how we understand ourselves, others, and, in fact, the world. But contact, interactions, and exchanges can leave the boundary ...

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