Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 23

Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 23

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. Nationalism is ________.

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. The Hindu fundamentalists in India are an example of the clash of ________ and ________.

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. Culture is seen as a homogeneous and essentialist whole, without fissures and ________.

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. The following statements is true of postmodern views on culture and development: _______.

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. Max Weber's theory of the ________ identified specific cultural traits that were argued to be key to successful (Western) capitalist development.

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. Non-Western traditional societies are characterized by ________.

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. In his influential book ________, Edward Said deconstructed common assumptions about the East.

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. ________ argued that cultural struggle is not a one-sided process in which the ruling or dominant culture simply overruns or decimates the subordinate culture.

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. According to James Scott, subordinate and powerless groups that may lack the material means to challenge dominant groups, nonetheless engage in ________.

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. In post-colonial theory, there is an obsessive focus on the colonial past and _______.

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. One of the scholars who misunderstood culture is ________.

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. Culture can be seen as ________.

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. ________ asks how is it possible to study mass-mediated cultural forms without understanding the broadcasting institutions that produced them.

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. ________ assume(s) that hunter-gatherers are poor.

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. Claims of cultural homogeneity and distinctness, for instance, are routinely made in relation to ________.

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. The "Asian values" thesis is an example of elites using cultural propaganda to obtain legitimacy.

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. It is not possible to achieve social justice without some appeal to universalism.

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. Modernization theory argues that "traditional" cultural forms are obstacles to economic development.

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. Culture and development are different categories. They cannot be interlinked.

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. Culture is as marked by relations of power as any other sphere in society and is continuously changing according to the nature of contestation and struggle.

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. Classic texts such as Edward Said's Orientalism deconstructed many commonplace assumptions about the Orient.

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. According to Amartya Sen, culture is only an end of development, not a means to it.

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. Since the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe, Western thought has been dominated by an outlook that placed its faith in human reason instead of in an extraneous supernatural authority

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. Max Weber's theory of the Catholic ethic argues that specific traits of Catholics (like discipline and hard work) played a major role in the origin of capitalism.

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. The value system central to capitalist modernization is the "culture ideology of consumerism."

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. The materialist view of cultures asserts the primacy of culture over material factors in social change.

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. Modern science and technology could not have originated unless the belief in the sacredness of nature had been substantially altered.

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. The practice of cultural forms and the enjoyment of symbolic objects are activities devoid of ideology.

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. Cultural relativism asserts that cultural practices are not necessarily right or wrong.

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. A major flaw in the postmodern theoretical framework is the nearly total absence in it of an analysis of material relationships.

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