Nationalism: Defining Terms

Which word matches this definition:

Claims to jurisdiction, to some degree of self-government in a given territory, in other words, a political unit of sovereignty.

• Ethnicity

• Nationalism

• Self-determination

• None of the above

Match the following theories to their definitions

• Claims identities are molded, refabricated, and mobilized through cultural scripts

• Instrumentalism

• Argues that ethnic and national identity are derived from human nature

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• When political elites and intellectuals use ethnicity for political ends

• Constructivism

• The way historical processes, like industrialization, create cultural homogeneity

• Primordialism

Which historical figure is given as an example of someone who used instrumentalism to achieve power?

True or False: Primordialists believe ethnic conflict is "natural"

• True

• False

True or False: Constructivists believe conflict is inevitable.

• True

• False