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Seeking to create or preserve one’s own nation (political group) through an independent state is known as what?

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Nationalism

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What is an Ascription?

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An identity assigned at birth

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A collection of people bound by shared institutions that define how human relations are conducted

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Society

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This refers to a person’s relationship to other members of society through a set of institutions that bind people together through a common culture.

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Ethnic Identity

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What is known as a pride in one’s people and belief in sovereign destiny?

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Nationalism

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Do ethnic groups ever call for self-government in order to form National Identity?

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Yes

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What can develop from ethnicity?

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National Identity

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List three examples of National Identity

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  • Self-government
  • Sovereignty
  • Equality
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What is referred to an individual’s or a group’s relationship to the state; those who are citizens swear allegiance to that state, and that state in return is obligated to provide rights to those individuals or the members of that group?

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Citizenship

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Can you have national identity without ethnic identity?

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Yes! United States! India, Great Britain, Canada, too!

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True or False: National Identity is inherently political in nature?

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True

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True or false: Ethnic Identity is largely fixed during our lives

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True

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Ethnicity is fixed but is citizenship?

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No

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Is ethnicity as a “social construction” inherently political?

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No

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What is known as a set of institutions that blind people together through common political aspirations?

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National identity

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Give an example of a country where language and culture are the same, but religion divides

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Serbia

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This refers to a broad term that refers to complex human organization

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Society

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List a country with Ethnic and National Identity

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Canada: French-speaking population in Quebec

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What are some examples of Ethnic Identity?

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  • Language
  • Religion
  • Geography
  • Customs
  • History
  • etc.
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Can you have ethnic identity without national identity?

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Yes; various ethnic groups that do not have a national consciousness

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What is the key to nationalism?

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Sovereignty

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True or false: what differentiates groups in one place may not be important in another

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True

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List two reasons for which National Identity forms

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  • Ethnic groups may feel oppressed

- Ethnic group may form a minority population

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Citizenship gives rise to what?

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Patriotism

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What is referred to the pride in one's state?
Patriotism
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What also fed the creation of shared identities - ethnicity?
New Social Institutions
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What was a result of fostering national identity?
A common political destiny
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Nationalism is promoted by whom?
States and elites--top-down approach
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Why do elites promote nationalism?
It promotes unity/ doesn't disrupt the establishment
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The idea that people would fight and die for abstract concept like national identity was what kind of shift?
A paradigm shift
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What is an important political identity as nation-states formed?
Citizenship
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What are sources of conflict?
- Ethnic - National - Violence as a common tool
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What is the struggle between groups to achieve economic/political goals at other groups’ expense (superiority) referred to as?
Ethnic conflict
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What is the struggle between groups for political independence (sovereignty) referred to as?
National Conflict
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Views regarding the necessary pace and scope of political change describes what?
Political Attitudes
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What are two views of political attitudes?
Left & Right
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List of the 4 political attitudes
- Radicals - Liberals - Conservatives - Reactionaries
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Name the following political attitude - seek revolutionary change, violently if necessary
Radicals
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Name the following political attitude - those who seek evolutionary change
Liberals
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Name the following political attitude - seek little or no change of system
Conservatives
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Name the following political attitude - seek to restore previous order, violently if necessary
Reactionaries
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What is the set of political values regarding fundamental good goals of politics
Political Ideoloes
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Who is for the individual political and freedom?
Liberals (Liberalism)
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Describe liberalism
- Weak state with low autonomy - controlled by people - Higher inequality - Liberal democracy
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The following list which political ideology? - Low individual political freedom - High equality as the goal - Strong state with high autonomy
Communism
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What ideology believes that the struggle over resources breeds inequality?
Communism
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Which ideology seeks to balance individual freedom and collective equality using a strong state to manage this?
Social Democracy
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This continent is known as the "welfare state"
Europe
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This ideology doesn't care about freedom or equality
Fascism
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This ideology doesn't care about inequality because it's based on the superiority that some are over many
Fascism
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Which ideology allows for high autonomy and capacity to direct nation and vanquish enemies
Fascism
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Which ideology has a very high focus on individual freedom and equality?
Anarchism
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Which ideology believes that states are the problem, not the solution?
Anarchism
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This society seeks a stateless society to ensure both freedom and equality
Anarchism
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Which ideology claims that ideologies emerged as rivals to traditional religions?
Fundamentalism
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This ideology seeks to unite religion with the state to make faith the sovereign authority?
Fundamentalism
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Which ideology reemerged faith in political context?
Fundamentalism
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Does fundamentalism have one political ideology or orientation?
No
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What is theocracy?
Rule by faith
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Emphasis on freedom and equality may be very different depending on what?
The kind of fundamentalism

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