01:790:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Primordialism, Classical Liberalism, Liberal Democracy

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: 01:790:103
• Professor: Barea Sinno

Document Summary

Political salience is the political impact and importance of identity groups: not innate, not born with it. This is why what is a man if there is no woman, they are defined relative to one another. Gender identity role: social construction of gender in particular symbols of what a proper woman is our keyways in which national ethnic religious and racial group boundaries. Assimilation (canada and us) integrating immigrants for other minority cultures into the larger culture of the whole society and fails to guarantee equal rights and participation. Nation= is a group that proclaims itself as such, has or seeks control of a state. Ethnic group: like nations see themselves as united by one or more cultural attributes or a sense of common history but don"t have or seek their own state. Races: race: ethnic identity"s focus on cultural, resident, physical characteristics as markers of particular groups as well most racial groups are distinguished by physical characteristics.