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• Ethnic Identity


  It is a set of instructions that bind people together through a common culture.
• Ascription


  the assigning of a particular quality at birth
• Social Construction


  unique combination of attributes
• Ethnicity


  people acknowledge and are acknowledged by outsiders as belonging to a distinct group.
• National Identity


  a set of institutions that bind people together through common political aspirations.
• ethnic identity


  a set of institutions that bind people together through a common culture.
• Citizenship


  An individual's relationship to the state, wherein citizens swear allegiance to that state and the state in return is obligated to provide rights to those citizens.
• Citizenship


  It can also convey certain obligation; such as the duty to serve in the armed forces or pay taxes.
• Patriotism


  Some of the things that may come to mind are our flag, important historical events, wars, anthems --- all images that people associate with politics and the state.
• Patriotism


  Love for one's country
• Ethnic Conflict


  A conflict in which different ethnic groups struggle to achieve certain political or economic goals at each other's expense.
• National Conflict


  one or more groups have as their goal sovereignty, clashing with others in the quest to form an independent state.
• Political Attitudes


  views regarding the necessary pace and scope of change in the balance between freedom and equality.
• What are the 4 categories of political Attitudes

  1. Radicals

  2. Liberals

  3. Conservatives

  4. Reactionaries
• Radicals


  believe in dramatic, often revolutionary change of the existing political, social, or economic order.
• Radicals


  believe that the current system is broken and cannot simply be improved or repaired but must be scrapped in favor of a new order
• Liberals


  They believe that there is much that can be changed for the better in the current political, social, and economic institution.
• Liberals


  favor evolutionary change
• Conservatives


  They believe, Change will simply replace one set of problems with another.
• Conservatives


  are skeptical of the view that change is nessessarily good in itself and instead vies it as disruptive and leading to unforseen outcomes.
• Reactionaries


  those who seek to restore political, social, and economic institution
• Reactionaries


  advocate a restoration of values, a change back to a previous regime or state that they believe was superior to the current order
• Reactionaries


  seek to return to an envisioned past ideal that may never have existed.