Deck 4: Ethnicity Matters: Experiences: Politics, Identity, and Power, and Experiences

Question 1

What do we call the process by which people engage in organized and collective action to achieve goals?

A) Social movement
B) Symbolic ethnicity
C) Collective definition
D) Institutional Completeness

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What kind of ethnic identity represents a cultural difference that makes a daily difference in peoples lives?

A) Lived-in
B) Situational
C) Symbolic
D) Postmodern

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to the text, ethnicity can be expressed in three major ways. Which of the following is NOT an expression of ethnicity?

A) Community
B) Identity
C) Activity
D) Reality

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The text distinguishes two seemingly opposed dynamics at the onset of the 21^st century. One of these is globalization. According to the text, what is the other dynamic that is shaping developments in the new century?

A) Anti-Racism
B) Ethnicity
C) Inter-state conflicts
D) Ethnic communities

Question 5

What of the following approaches tends to see ethnic identity as fluid, emergent, negotiated, and provisional rather than fixed, determining, and rigid?

A) Structuralist
B) Hybridic
C) Primordial
D) Insurgent

Question 6

Ethnically driven civil wars and sectarian violence have killed or displaced millions of people since the 1990s. Most of those killed or displaced have been ?

A) Soldiers
B) Government officials
C) Ethnic majorities
D) Civilians

Question 7

A community of people who see themselves as distinct, are seen by others as distinct, and are separated from others by way of cultural boundaries is known as a (n) ?

A) Ethnicity
B) Ethnic group
C) Social Movement
D) Ethnic nationalism

Question 8

What explanation argues that the surge in ethnicity reflects powerful biological impulses?

A) Primordial
B) Identity
C) Constructivist
D) Instrumental

Question 9

What explanation argues that ethnicity serves as a resource in the collective pursuit of goals in a competitive environment?

A) Primordial explanation
B) Instrumental explanation
C) Identity thesis
D) Collective definition
E)

Question 10

What do we call an approach to studying ethnicity that emphasizes a shared "we-feeling" within the group?

A) Subjective approach
B) Objective Approach
C) Cookie cutter approach
D) Sociological approach

Question 11

Which type of ethnic identity is most consistent with a kaleidoscope model of ethnicity?

A) Insurgent
B) Lived in
C) Hybridic
D) Primordial

Question 12

What do sociologists call a group of people who believe they are different, reflect the status of a peoples, and are thus entitled to political autonomy and to speak the language of nationhood?

A) Nation
B) State
C) Society
D) Country

Question 13

What primordial-based approach argues that ethnicity is genetically wired into the human species for the express purpose of transmitting closely related genes from one generation to another?

A) Constructivist
B) Instrumental
C) Sociobiology
D) Evolution

Question 14

What explanatory framework argues that ethnicity exists because it provides a buffer for insulating individuals from an intensely competitive and impersonal world of change and uncertainty?

A) Primordial
B) Identity
C) Instrumental
D) Constructivist

Question 15

Five expressions of ethnic identity can be discerned. Which of the following is NOT included in this list of identity expressions?

A) Lived-in
B) Situational
C) Insurgent
D) Intersubjective

Question 16

What type of ethnic identity is associated with notions of multiple homelands and multiple attachments because of the global movement of people?

A) Hybridic
B) Transnational
C) Situational
D) Global

Question 17

The new kaleidoscope model of ethnicity tends to see ethnicity as a ?

A) Thing
B) Fixed site of location
C) Mosaic
D) Process

Question 18

What do we call an ethnic identity that revolves around an attachment to symbols of ethnicity rather than its substance or practice?

A) Lived-in
B) Insurgent
C) Subjective
D) Situational

Question 19

What nationalist movements are driven by the politics of ethnicity?

A) Symbolic nationalism
B) Civic nationalism
C) State nationalism
D) Ethnic nationalism

Question 20

What term describes the phenomenon that involves a shared awareness of ancestral linkages and recognized commonalities as basis for community, identity, or activity?

A) Race
B) Heritage
C) Ethnicity
D) Ancestry

Question 21

What kind of nationalism involves the building of a society around a set of rules and ideals?

Question 22

Reference to a hatred of ethnic others is an example of a ethnic identity.

Question 23

If the old ethnicity model envisaged Canada as an ethnic mosaic, the new ethnicity model prefers to see Canada as an ethnic

Question 24

What kind of ethnic identity rejects the notion of ethnicity as a self-contained identity proposing, instead, to see identities as fluid, transitional, contextual, and provisional?

Question 25

What do we call the process by which ethnicity is transformed into something both harmless and private?

A) Insurgent ethnicity
B) Ethnic nationalism
C) De-politicizing ethnicity
D) Institutional completeness

Question 26

According to the text, which of the following characteristics is NOT consistent with the new ethnicity model?

A) Ethnicity is situated in a specific field of location
B) Ethnicity as process
C) Emphasis on subjective experiences
D) Multiple ethnic identities

Question 27

According to the case study on Ethnic conflict, while wars between countries ('interstate') have declined in recent years, what kind of ethnic conflict has increased ?

Question 28

What term describes a shared awareness of ancestral commonalities and group belonging as basis for recognition and rewards?

Question 29

What do we call those socially constructed barriers that secure a social border between ethnic groups?

Question 30

A community of peoples is known as a nation. A political and administrative unit is called a .

Question 31

According to the Ethnic Diversity Study of 2002, what percentage of Canadians identify as French, English, or Canadian only?

A) 71 percent
B) 22 percent
C) 59 percent
D) 46 percent

Question 32

One of the key challenges for the 21^st century is to make society safe for ethnicity as well as safe ethnicity.

Question 33

A relatively high degree of completeness provides ethnic communities with mutual support, access to services in their own language, and sources of identity.

Question 34

What thesis argues that ethnicity involves a process in which individuals pool their resources to maximize their chances and improve their competitive advantage?

Question 35

Two expressions of nationalism are shown to exist. One of these is ethnic nationalism. What is the other expression of nationalism?

A) State
B) Societal
C) Minority
D) Civic

Question 36

According to the text, there is no problem in using ethnic conflict in a descriptive sense. As the case study demonstrates, there are major problems in employing ethnic conflict in a (n) manner.

A) Symbolic
B) Primordial
C) Explanatory
D) Conflict

Question 37

What do we call the phenomena when people organize into action groups to achieve certain goals? (two words)

Question 38

What kind of ethnic identity is at play when people become fully involved in mainstream society yet continue to maintain a symbolic or emotional attachment to their ethnic past?

Question 39

What explanation argues that ethnicity is largely the result of inherent biological impulses?

Question 40

What kind of ethnic identity do we normally associate with Anabaptist groups such as the Hutterites?