Quiz for POLS2204

Ruth Benedict uses the example of Gothic architecture to show

That culture is best conceived of as a building created by design

Which author uses the analogy of a switchman to describe how ideas shape action?

Max weber

Ann Swidler argus that culture is a toolkit because

It contains resources that actors draw on as they construct strategies of action

which author argues that culture is like an integrated whole that shapes who individuals become?

Ann Swidler

which author identifies four common uses of the word culture?

Terry Eagleton

Ann Swidler identifies culture’s effects as easier to study during

Unsettled periods

According to Terry Eagleton, the word ‘culture’ did not come into popular currency until

The nineteenth century

What is Ruth Benedict attempting to convey in her metaphor about gunpowder?

That the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Why does Swidler object to the notion that a ‘culture of poverty’ shapes the beliefs of poor people and keeps trapped in poverty?

Both B and C

What year was Benedict’s Patterns of Culture published?

1934

John Ikenberry characterises the Liberal International Order as

Open and rules-based

John Ikenberry and John Mearsheimer agree that

That material power is important to shaping world politics

John Mearsheimer builds his work on 5 assumptions. Which of the following is NOT one of these assumptions?

Cultural power is as important as military power

In the writings of Mearsheimer and Ikenberry, culture is

Assumed not unacknowledged

Mearsheimer argues that cooperation can be difficult between states. Which of the following is NOT one of his reasons for this?

Cooperation requires a common culture, which Great Powers don’t share

When discussing culture and sovereignty, the readings focus on

Religion

Susanna Mancini argues that the Peace of Westphalia

Enshrined religion as central to politics in a world of sovereign states

Suzanne Hoeber Rudolph argues that religious communities shape world politics by

Creating new international forms of political authority

Which author argues that Westphalian sovereignty creates a pluralist international society in which peoples of diverse cultures can coexist?

Robert Jackson

Both Robert Jackson and Suzanne Hoeber Rudolph talk about pluralism in the organisation of world politics. Their arguments differ principally because

The former is talking about pluralism between states, the latter is talking about pluralism in global civil society

Ada Bozeman argues that

International law is a western cultural product and it has weakened as the world has become more culturally diverse

Christian Reus-Smit address two rival views of the relation between culture and international law: that international law is a rational construction that has little to do with culture, and that culture provides the deep foundation of international law, in his article, he

Offers a third way of understanding the relation of culture and law

Fransico de Vitoria argued that indigenous Indians who the Spanish conquered

Were human but lacked the capacity of administering a lawful state

Anthony Anghie argues that

International law is deeply shaped by imperialism and the civilising mission

Adda Bozeman and Anthony Anghie both emphasise the western foundations of international law. Their arguments are

Compatible

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd examines three kinds of religion. Which of the following is NOT one of the kinds she examines?

Practical religion

According to Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, expert religion is

Religion as understood by those who generate policy relevant knowledge about religion

Toft, Philpott and Shah argue that religion involves seven elements. Which of the following is NOT one of these elements?

A belief in sin

The key difference between Toft, Philpott and Shah argument and Shakman Hurd’s argument is

The former believe that you can arrive at a workable definition of religion that can inform research, the latter does not

Toft, Philpott and Shah argue that nationalism and religion are

Not the same thing and only sometimes related

O’Hagan argues that the word civilisation became widely used at the same as

The word progress

Which author explores two discourses of civilisation: civilisation as a site of agency, and civilisation as a generative force

Jacinta O’Hagan

Huntington argues that the West will

Remain the most powerful civilisation for years to come

Huntington argues that

That states are disappearing and being replaced by civilisations

Huntington divides the world into 8 civilisations. Which of the following is NOT one of these

Japanese civilisation

For Anthony D Smith, the word ethnie is

A pre-modern ethnic community

Anthony D Smith provides how many elements of national identity?

4

Benedict Anderson believes that nationalism is less like political ideologies such as liberalism and fascism and more like

Kinship and religion

Which of the following is not one of Anderson’s identified factors in the historical emergence of nationalism?

Rise of industrialism

Which author focuses on the ‘Harlem Renaissance’?

Robert Vitalis

which author first focused on the ‘colour line’ in world politics?

WEB Du Bois

Du Bois uses which of the following images in explaining the global colour line and black self-consciousness

The veil

Aileen Moreton-Robinson argues that

Patriarchal white sovereignty remains a regime of power shaping Australia

Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s view of John Howard’s policy is

Very different to Judith Brett’s

the arguments presented by Anievas, Manchanda and Shilliam, on one hand, and those of Robert Vitalis, on the other hand, are:

Trying to push IR in the same direction

Loubna El Amine rejects the idea that human rights should be understood as Western because

Human rights struggles, whether they be in the West or the East, are responding to the same historical problem: the arbitrary power of the state

Loubna El Amine argues that to fight the modern state

The most suitable tools are democracy, human rights, and the rule of law

Stephen Hopgood argues that the rise of human rights globally after the 1970s depended on

The power and commitment of the united states

Stephen Hopgood and Loubna El Amine disagree because

The latter focuses on the nature of local struggles for human rights whereas the former focuses on the power of the west

Stephen Hopgood argues that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch were

Served as gatekeepers, resisting expanding the ideas of human rights to include rights of sexual orientation and gender identity