SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Representative Democracy, Charismatic Authority, Negative And Positive Rights
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Lecture 15: politics and citizenship: yet while state and nation may overlap, they are quite different. Nationalism: when asked a question about nationality a person may answer. american, british, german, italian, or canadian, and so on: however, if answering british, the person may also answer. Therefore, the state claims the sole right to apply coercive force. The rights, on the other hand, may be personal. Here we might include the protection of our own body and possessions, the right to profess our own opinions and beliefs. They may also be political in terms of in uencing the composition and the policy of state organs. Plays our between & within nation states: often focuses on ideals and principles. Rights : many rights are tied closely to citizenship, negative rights. Freedom from : older & arguably strongest type, resistance to overt state control or interference, entitlements one should or might expect. Citizenship & inclusion: citizenship is, therefore, exclusionary by its very nature.
