POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nationstates, Public Culture, Gie

• School: UBC
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 101
• Professor: Allan Craigie

Document Summary

Tate: (cid:862)[the state is that institution which] successfully upholds a claim to the (cid:373)o(cid:374)opoly of the legiti(cid:373)ate use of physical force i(cid:374) the e(cid:374)force(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of its order (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) a gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) territorial area(cid:863) max weber. Common mass public culture: norms, values, anthropological understanding of culture. Eg: kurdistan= nation spanning over 4 states, indigenous populations. We won the war, we wrote the history. People share the same culture a system of ideas, signs, associations and ways of behaving and communicating. Members of a nation recognize each other as such. The essence of a nation is that individuals have many things in common, and that they have forgotten many things. Assumes that the state should represent a nation. Most states act as nation-states, but in reality have multiple nations. Assumption that states are nation-states can lead to great amounts of internal division it causes problems!