SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Stateless Society, Failed State, Group Cohesiveness
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State: centrally organized institution or set of institutions whose central aim is to enforce order. Nation: people tied together ethnically or civically and having a shared culture and mutual recognition as members of the same group. National identity: collective identity of a political community (e. g. nation) Want to think of it as a theory or idea. Political principle - congruence between national and political units o. Violations of the political principle of nationalism = nationalist sentiment, results in social movements, political conflicts, violence and war. State failure to include all members of the nation in its governing activities. Failure to include all nationals, yet includes non-nationals, including in group members but letting out group members have a say in the functioning of the state. Nationalism emerges in a context where the state is already in existence o. Nationalism not equivalent to patriotism (i. e. purely loyal to the state)
