Author Question: How would an instrumentalist interpret President Barack Obama's plan in the fall of 2014 to ... (Read 59 times)

Cooldude101 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

How would an instrumentalist interpret President Barack

Obama's plan in the fall of 2014 to reform immigration policy?
a. an attempt to gain political support
b. a result of the natural progression of democratic institutions
c. an example of building nationalism
d. a demonstration of a social network

Question 2

A weakness of the constructivist explanation of group conflict is:

a. not recognizing that identity-based conflict is natural to humans.
b. not explaining that conflicts such as those between Hindus and Muslims have been going on since time immemorial.
c. paying too little attention to how instigators of violence manipulate ethnic identities.
d. the difficulty of explaining why ethnic and religious conflict occurs at specific times in specific locations.