POL S 204 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: French Third Republic, Imagined Communities, Democratic Consolidation
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They have changed over time and now have emotional legitimacy. Imagined because members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them or hear of them, yet imagines meeting them. Using imagination, they are seen as limited and sovereign. Limited in the sense that even the largest have finite boundaries. There is no way to tie bonds across the entire world. Sovereign in the sense that there is a pluralism of religions and there comes a sense of freedom from this religious diversity. They changed languages so they could reach a larger market and make more money. Print languages were used through capitalism (print capitalism), mechanically reproduced print- languages were used. They created unified fields of exchange and communication below latin and above the spoken languages. People were able to understand each other on print and paper; an awareness of others in the same language field began to emerge.
