Ch12 Social Constructivismmichael Barnett Complete Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 01

01) While mainstream IR assumes that states have enduring interests such as power and wealth and focuses on the material forces that constrain their ability to further those interests, constructivism argues that social forces such as ideas, knowledge, norms, and rules also influence states’ identities and interests and the very organization of world politics.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 02

02) ‘Constitutive’ rules are those that regulate already existing activities.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 03

03) Social facts exist because of human agreement.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 04

04) Constructivism is best compared with ‘rational choice’, as opposed to theories of world politics like neorealism or neoliberalism.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 05

05) The word ‘refugee’ is a product of the eighteenth century.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 06

06) What term is not generally associated with constructivist thought?

a. Idealism.

b. Individualism.

c. Holism.

d. Social theory.

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 07

07) According to constructivism, the convergence on similar models, the internationalization of norms, and the possible emergence of an international community reflect the transformation toward a world without power and hierarchy.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 08

08) Constructivists emphasize the role of _________ in shaping the interests of actors such as states.

a. Identity

b. Brute facts

c. Level of capabilities (i.e. military).

d. International treaties and institutions.

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 09

09) Why do states comply with international human rights laws?

a. They fear that international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) might ‘name and shame’ them.

b. They face pressure from domestic groups that cite human rights laws.

c. They face foreign policy pressure from those states that identify with human rights.

d. All of the given answers are correct.

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 10

10) How do professional associations and expert communities diffuse organizational models?

a. Associations use material leverage, such as access to grant money, to coerce recipient states to adopt their approaches.

b. Most associations have established techniques, codes of conduct, and methodologies for determining how to confront challenges in their areas of expertise, and they learn them through informal interactions and in formal settings such as universities.

c. Associations emphasize the superiority of the ‘Western’ model.

d. None of the given answers are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 11

11) Constructivists argue that knowledge shapes how actors interpret and construct their…

a. Worlds and realities.

b. Norms and ideas.

c. Cost-benefit analyses.

d. Normative structures.

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 12

12) Who said ‘we are cultural beings with the capacity and the will to take a deliberate attitude towards the world and to lend it significance’?

a. Max Weber

b. John Ruggie

c. Kenneth Walt

d. Alexander Wendt

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 13

13) According to this chapter, all of the following are true of norms except…

a. A norm is ‘a standard of appropriate behavior for actors with a given identity’ (Finnemore and Sikkink 1998).

b. Norms not only regulate what states do, but also can be connected to their identities and thus express how they define themselves and their interests.

c. Norms are always based in calculations of material interests.

d. Norms constrain behaviour because actors are worried about costs and because of a sense of self.

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 14

14) Institutional isomorphism…

a. Observes that organizations that share the same environment will, over time, come to resemble each other.

b. Claims that if once there was a diversity of models within a population, over time that diversity yields conformity and convergence around a single model.

c. Asserts that there used to be various ways to organize state structures, economic activity, and free trade

agreements, but now that the world is organized around the nation-state, many states favour democratic forms of governance and market economies, and most international organizations are multilateral.

d. All of the given answers are correct.

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 15

15) The logic of consequences attributes action to the anticipated costs and benefits, while the logic of appropriateness highlights how actors are rule-following, worrying about whether their actions are legitimate.

a. True

b. False