QA - Social

Question 1

number of displaced Iraqi

Answer 1

2.7

Question 2

displaced outside iraq

Answer 2

2

Question 3

largest displaced population

Answer 3

iraqi

Question 4

largest refugee population

Answer 4

Afghan, then palestinian, then Iraqis

Question 5

rein of the bath regim

Answer 5

35

Question 6

What is PLANNING

Answer 6

Planning is defined here as a set of rational actions, which aim to organise the use of space according to principles and goals determined in advance, usually by those in power. As such, planning is a very powerful action since it dictates the future of individuals and groups by shaping economic, social, cultural and physical spaces, which usually meet only the needs of the powerful actors in society.

Question 7

Martin Heidegger

Answer 7

German existantialist philospher botn in 1889

Question 8

What is Intersectionality?

Answer 8

a concept often used in critical theories to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. Third Wave Feminism, especially, thrived on the concept of intersectionality in order to redefine Feminism as inclusive. The concept first came from legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989 and is largely used in critical theories, especially Feminist theory, when discussing systematic oppression.

Question 9

What is post modern feminism

Answer 9

Postmodern feminism’s major departure from other branches of feminism is perhaps the argument that sex, or at least gender is itself constructed through language, a view notably propounded in Judith Butler.

Question 10

What is strcturalism?

Answer 10

as summarized by philosopher Simon Blackburn, Structuralism is “the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations. These relations constitute a structure, and behind local variations in the surface phenomena there are constant laws of abstract culture”

Question 11

Who influenced the work of Judith Butler?

Answer 11

Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, as well as on Luce Irigaray

Question 12

What is essentialism?

Answer 12

he basic proposition that men and women are essentially different

Question 13

What is the difference between sex and gender

Answer 13

the first is biological and the second is social

Question 14

“Taking the role of the other” the person ability to understand another person perspective

Answer 14

Gorge H Mead, he was the philosopher’s , sociolgist psychologist and one of the founders of social psychology and one of the founders of sociological thought

Question 15

subaltern

Answer 15

the social group who is socially, politically, and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland

Question 16

Worlding

Answer 16

The discourse used to represent colonized territories

Question 17

Origin of the term aboriginal

Answer 17

The term ‘aboriginal’ was coined as early as 1667 to describe the indigenous inhabitants of places encountered by European explorers, adventurers or seamen. While the terms ‘aboriginal’ and ‘aborigine’ have been used from time to time to describe the indigenous inhabitants of many settler colonies, they are now most frequently used as a shortened form of ‘Australian Aborigine’ to describe the indigenous inhabitants of Australia.

Question 18

Who is Edmondo De Amicis

Answer 18

He is an Italian nationalist, socilaist journalist novevelest who worte about the middle east during the war. In 1870, he joined the staff of the journal La Nazione in Rome. he is famous for A new edition of Costantinopoli, considered by many his masterpiece and the best description of the city in the 19th century. famouse for children genere.

Question 19

First book for Bell Hooks

Answer 19

ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism (1981), hooks was part of a vanguard of black female writers who were not only extending gender politics within black communities but were also providing searing critiques of US feminism which was under- girded by the presumption of white womanhood.

Question 20

What is Genuflection

Answer 20

Genuflection (or genuflexion), bending at least one knee to the ground, was from early times a gesture of deep respect for a superior. In 328 BC, Alexander the Great introduced into his court-etiquette some form of genuflection already in use in Persia.