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Living in the “Inner City”
Exam Date
Wed, December 4th, 2013, 8:30
Design
For each text, there will be 2 multiple choice questions
There will be altogether 20 questions, corresponding with the 20% evaluation of this exam per correct answer you get one grade point
Required Texts
Sherene Razack, Race, Space and the Law (RSL)
S. Razack, When Place becomes Race (1-17)
M. Oikawa, Cartographies of Violence (71-98)
B. Lawrence, Rewriting Histories of the Land (21-46)
Eva Mackey, The House of Difference (HoD)
Settling Differences: Managing and Representing People and Land in the Canadian National Project (23-49)
Managing the House of Difference (50-70)
Other Articles
R. Mongia: A History of the Passport
Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Welcome/Stay out. The Contradictions of Canadian Integration and Immigration Policies at the Millennium
S. Krishnamurti, Queue-jumpers, terrorists, breeders: representations of Tamil migrants in Canadian popular media
L. Wacquant: Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto
G. Lipsitz: The Social Warrant of Consumer Citizenship
Exam Preparations
We can broadly distinguish three different categories of questions that correspond to different levels of difficulty
1st category (easy to answer: 7 questions):
Questions in which you will need to identify what a text is about and what kind of sociological issue is being discussed
2nd category (somewhat difficult: 8 questions)
Questions in which you will need to identify what kind of arguments have been advanced in a text
3rd category (quite challenging: 5 questions)
Questions in which you will need to assess concepts and what they actually mean
Sample Question (Category 1)
In his text “Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto”, Loic Wacquant examines:
The gradual demise of urban neighborhoods in large cities that become desolated after a majority of residents have moved out
The relationship between the public framing of
Exam Date
Wed, December 4th, 2013, 8:30
Design
For each text, there will be 2 multiple choice questions
There will be altogether 20 questions, corresponding with the 20% evaluation of this exam per correct answer you get one grade point
Required Texts
Sherene Razack, Race, Space and the Law (RSL)
S. Razack, When Place becomes Race (1-17)
M. Oikawa, Cartographies of Violence (71-98)
B. Lawrence, Rewriting Histories of the Land (21-46)
Eva Mackey, The House of Difference (HoD)
Settling Differences: Managing and Representing People and Land in the Canadian National Project (23-49)
Managing the House of Difference (50-70)
Other Articles
R. Mongia: A History of the Passport
Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Welcome/Stay out. The Contradictions of Canadian Integration and Immigration Policies at the Millennium
S. Krishnamurti, Queue-jumpers, terrorists, breeders: representations of Tamil migrants in Canadian popular media
L. Wacquant: Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto
G. Lipsitz: The Social Warrant of Consumer Citizenship
Exam Preparations
We can broadly distinguish three different categories of questions that correspond to different levels of difficulty
1st category (easy to answer: 7 questions):
Questions in which you will need to identify what a text is about and what kind of sociological issue is being discussed
2nd category (somewhat difficult: 8 questions)
Questions in which you will need to identify what kind of arguments have been advanced in a text
3rd category (quite challenging: 5 questions)
Questions in which you will need to assess concepts and what they actually mean
Sample Question (Category 1)
In his text “Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto”, Loic Wacquant examines:
The gradual demise of urban neighborhoods in large cities that become desolated after a majority of residents have moved out
The relationship between the public framing of