Author Question: Constructivism a. suggests that identity divisions are not natural but rather are social ... (Read 21 times)

Capo · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Constructivism

a. suggests that identity divisions are not natural but rather are social creations.
b. explains political outcomes, including violence and democratic stability, by the extent to which identities are cross-cutting or complementary.
c. is a government response to identity diversity that involves a degree of cultural autonomy and extensive rights or privileges for members of a minority group.
d. is a government policy for dealing with identity diversity that allows minority groups to continue to practice their culture in exchange for accepting that the majority group's culture will be the dominant one.
e. is a term used to refer to the practice of an individual calling on different group identities in different settings.

Question 2

Primordialism refers to

a. the idea that identity divisions are the product of elite efforts to define individuals as falling into different identity groups and to make such divisions politically relevant.
b. an apocalyptic religious movement that began to be repressed after it demonstrated and demanded official government recognition.
c. the idea that identity divisions are based on deep-rooted features (blood ties, physical appearance, etc.) that have naturally divided people throughout history.
d. the sense of belonging to a large collective sharing a common history and culture, and believed to share a common descent.
e. situations in which group identity boundaries coincide with one another.