POLI 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consociationalism, Imagined Communities, Instrumentalism
26 Feb 2016
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Religion more important than any other shared attributes. Ethnicity as a concept as so complex and multifaceted- may look different. Nation: collective consciousness that desires for a state. Territory and ethnicity are necessary, but not sufficient. Based on modernity, industrialization, urbanization and media- these things which have helped people form an identity with people who share character traits with. This would have been impossible in the pre-modern age: essentialism/primordialism: most traditional and criticized of the theories. Man is a national, not a rational (connor 1994) weaknesses: Biology cannot explain everything: example, chinese in malaysia- those groups have only recently come into contact, if biology determined who you hate, the groups would have sought each other out sooner. The psychology of emotion (peterson 2002)- tried to revive essentialism, by testing and groups (resources) Elites manipulate masses- with something to gain. Scholars look to the main actors in a conflict. Why mobilize via ethnicity? brain waves in people predisposed.
