POG 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Death Of Eric Garner
4 Apr 2016
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What citizenship means in a modern liberal democratic context: The political identity that embodies all modern claims to liberty, equality, rights, autonomy, self determination, individualism and human agency (peter nyers) Citizenship: relationship between the individual and the state in a political community. In a world organized around nation states, citizenship may mean the right to have rights . Enacting citizenship: individuals perform their fundamental right to have rights by asking questions concerning social justice. Thus, citizenship is much more than legal status, although formal citizenship remains important for accessing social citizenship rights. Social identity: the range of categories in which people demarcate, locate themselves and others in society and the polity. A form of categorization which links the individual to a broader social grouping, such as women, the working class, african-americans, etc. Socially constructed (as opposed to biological or innate) Always relational (self defined in relation to others and contexts)
