What Explanatory Framework Argues That Ethnicity Exists Because It Provides

question 32

Multiple Choice

What explanatory framework argues that ethnicity exists because it provides a buffer for insulating individuals from an intensely competitive and impersonal world of change and uncertainty?

• A) Primordial
• B) Identity
• C) Instrumental
• D) Constructivist

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Definitions:

Domestic Violence

A pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner, including physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats.

Patriarchal

Related to a social system where men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and control of property.

Emotionally Distant

Refers to individuals who are not easily open to sharing their feelings or forming close emotional connections with others.

Myths

Traditional stories, often with a historical basis, that serve to explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon.