Brubaker Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

Lectures, Seminars and Articles: Jenkins. ‘Social Identity’ Gellner. ‘Nations and Nationalism’ Drakulic. ‘The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War’ Montgomery. ‘The Archipelago of Fear: Are Fortifications and Foreign Aid Making Kabul More Dangerous?’ Baumann. ‘Ethnicity: Blood or Wine?’ Brubaker. ‘Ethnicity Without Groups’ Brubaker. ‘Religious Dimensions of Political Conflict and Violence’ Drakulic. ‘The Balkan Express: Fragments From the Ot...

sociology test bank Chapter 1 Multiple Choice 1. As defined by C. Wright Mills, which of the following “enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society”? a. formal sociology b. sociological imagination c. microsociology d. macrosociology ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: Page 5 TOP: Factual OBJ: Sociological Imagination 2. Feeling discomfort about rural Chinese society, where many generations of a family sleep in the same bed, is known as: a. xenophobia....

1. As defined by C. Wright Mills, which of the following “enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society”? a. formal sociology b. sociological imagination c. microsociology d. macrosociology ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: Page 5 TOP: Factual OBJ: Sociological Imagination 2. Feeling discomfort about rural Chinese society, where many generations of a family sleep in the same bed, is known as: a. xenophobia. b. Verstehen. c. social identity. d. social...

A summarized study of the theory of nation and nationalism, i.e. constructivism. It is mainly elaborated by the key arguments of Brubaker. Moreover, it also contains some criticism by varied thinkers.

Multiple Choice 1. The two broad approaches social scientists use to gather data about the social world are: a. deductive and inductive. b. qualitative and quantitative. c. implicit and explicit. d. correlational and causal. 2. A sociologist’s subject matter presents some difficult research problems of a kind that natural scientists rarely have to deal with. Which of the following does NOT describe such a problem? a. A sociologists is part of the very subject he or she is studying. b. ...