GOVT 6101 - [Politics, Groups and Identities]

(crosslisted)
(also LSP 6101)

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Next offered 2014-2015. Permission of instructor required.

M. Jones-Correa.

Groups matter for the study of politics. Individuals mobilize, not only individually, but as members of groups. Nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, religion all imply an understanding of ‘groupness’-of what makes a group a group. This course is an exploration, through literatures drawing from various disciplines, of group identity, of how social scientists think about groups, and of how these are politically relevant. (AM)