POLS 2950 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Xenophobia, Administrative Division, Human Capital
13 Oct 2016
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Different historical processes that led to nation-states - not a single particular process. Benedict anderson - concept of nation - nation is an abstract, imagined community , sense of belonging to a political community created by shared experiences/histories/etc. Not a tangible thing, but it exists in our minds and is constantly reproduced in our actions - creates a sense of us versus them ; relational concept - social consciousness, collective identity, reproduces constantly. Relationship of the individual with the whole political body. A) sense of identity, sense of equality among all members of the political community) B) sense of loyalty (nation-state, above the nation-state (supranational), within the nation- state - some more loyal to catholic church, an ethnic tribe, etc. ) Loyalty to the nation-state needs to be higher than loyalty to anything else. Nation is the source of all political power that the state exercises - nation is what gives legitimacy to the state.
