SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Group, Imagined Communities, High Culture
7 Feb 2018
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Individuals who do not have access to this high culture are humiliated and discriminated. Origin of the nation (1)- residential schools: the assimilation of indigenous children- their culture into mainstream canadian society, high-culture: based on christian and euro-canadian ways of living, excluding the. Indigenous people as well as prohibiting their culture. Origins of the nation (2)- nation is a modern construct- benedict anderson. Imagined does not equal illusion: museums, census, maps, laws, sports, etc, print capitalism- printed in mostly common language- consume same media, began to perceive that they shared the same community, heightens similarities= imagined communities. Origins of the nation (3)- anderson: problems, too functionalist- doesn"t look at power relationships, print capitalism- who prints/decides what goes in, who decides this imaginary community, western-type of nationalism, functionalist- overlooked power-relations. Invented traditions: no serious historian of nations and nationalism can be committed political nationalist.
