SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ethnic Cleansing, Ethnic Nationalism, Turkish Cypriots
3 Apr 2016
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Educaion and ethnic conlict: mathew lange, mechanisms through which educaion potenially shapes ethnic violence, three cases that have experienced severe ethnic violence: cyprus, sri lanka . Socialisaion mechanism: culturalist view: ethnicity is constructed, educaion socialisaion can promote peaceful ethnic relaions in several ways: Socialising students to hold common norms that promote more peaceful social relaions. Increasing criical thinking skills: educaion can heighten inter-communal divisions: Compeiion mechanism: raional choice perspecive, educated individuals are paricularly prone to violence because they ind themselves in more compeiive situaions and have more to gain from eliminaing rivals. Mobilisaion mechanism: time, cogniive skills, communicaion resources, organisaion and associaion, these resources don"t pre-dispose the educated to ethnic violence, they just allow more efecive mobilisaion. Religious control over educaion (greek/orthodox and turkish/muslim) during colonialism. Ideniies were concreised, mutual hosiliies emphasised through one-sided. Case ii: sri lanka history lessons: ethnic violence between sinhalese and tamils, began as ani-tamil violence ater tamil opposiion to a policy making sinhalese and.
