Key Terms
The distinguishing character or personality of an individual. This is the Merriam-Webster definition of what term?
Identity
Name any example of a social identity group...
Race, religion, gender, nationality, school, profession, sports team (can be anything)
This region's population, mixed between Poland and Germany, chose Catholic leadership instead of picking a nation.
Upper Silesia
Zahra's central thesis: modernization and this concept coexisted, with neither one erasing the other.
National indifference
Zahra's title "Imagined Noncommunities" is a direct pun on this term from Anderson's book title.
Imagined Communities
This term, coined by Tara Zahra, describes people who prioritized religion, region, or family over aligning with a single nation.
National indifference
Which psychologist had the theory of Psychosocial Theory of Development in which there are 8 major stages of identity formation.
Erik Erikson
Eugene Weber's book about this group argued French was a foreign language to many of them in the 19th century.
French peasantry (Peasants into Frenchmen)
These two derogatory terms were used by nationalists to describe people who didn't pick a national side.
Hermaphrodite and amphibian
This scholar wrote Imagined Communities in 1983, arguing nations are made up of people who feel connected even though they'll never meet each other.
Benedict Anderson
The modernist historians believed national indifference was this kind of thing, something old that modernization was supposed to erase completely.
Premodern relic
What was Erik Erikson's term for a sense of self that is constantly being built through social interactions and daily experiences.
Ego Identity
Citizens of this bicultural nation-pair often said "we are all peasants" or claimed the "Catholic nationality" instead of picking a side.
Poland and Ukraine
Zahra argues indifference only exists as a category because of this group's constant efforts to eliminate it.
Nationalists
Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper wrote what influential paper in the year 2000?
Beyond "Identity"
This theory, held by Anderson, Gellner, Hobsbawm, and Weber, gave Zahra her main counter argument throughout the article.
The modernist paradigm
James Marcia supported the theory that identity is developed based on which two principles?
Exploration and Committment
In this Bohemian town, German affiliation dropped by nearly 50% between 1910 and 1921.
Budweis
These five historians established the modernist paradigm that Zahra spends her article arguing against. Name at least 4/5.
Anderson, Gellner, Hobsbawm, Ranger, and Weber
Brubaker and Cooper argue the word "identity" gets used so much, in so many different ways, that it's lost this quality.
Precision / Usefulness as an analytical tool
What is the exact train metaphor Zahra uses to summarize the modernist historians' logic?
The one-way ticket model
Which of the four identity statuses refers to low committment and low exploration in which there is a lack of clear direction and self.
Identity Diffusion
The Germans and Czechs fought to give more resources to this area, hoping to win their nationality.
The Bohemian Lands
According to Zahra, indifference actually flourished during these years, not before them.
1880–1948
Brubaker and Cooper argue that identity has both a "hard" meaning and a "soft" meaning. Explain the difference between the two.
Hard identity refers to fixed and absolute traits, characteristics, or affiliations such as national origin.
Soft identity is fluid and shaped by context such as beliefs and personal attitudes.