Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction
2 General Discussion of Ethnic Identity 2 page paper due
Section I: General Theory
3

Primordialist Approaches

2 page paper due
4

Constructivist Approaches I

5

Constructivist Approaches II

5-7 page paper due
Section II: Variables Driving Identity Construction
6

Modernization

2 page paper due
7 Entrepreneurship 2 page paper due
8

Patronage

9

Prejudice and Stigma

5-7 page paper due
Section III: Ethnic Group Mobilization as an Independent Variable
10

Party Politics and Consociationalism

11

Democracy and Democratic Consolidation

2 page paper due
12 Ethnic Mobilization and Civil War 2 page paper due
13

Ethnic Riots

14 Partition and Secession 5-7 page paper due

Final paper due one week after session 14.