SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ottoman Empire, Political Consciousness, Nationstates
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Soci 265 war, states, and social change. Andreas wimmer (swiss sociologist the reading we read): Strong relationship between the year of nation-state creation and war. Rules of the state should be the same for the people they are in. He looks at types of war and after nation state creations, most wars are related to internal civil conflicts. The very strict and brutal definition of nationalism: one nation, one state. Wimmer believes this isn"t necessarily true, possible to have several nations co-exist under one political root. Ex: quebec in canada or scotland in the uk. If we look at euro history from 1870, the first definition has an enormous descriptive power which is very true. European history has been the history of ethnic cleansing, population transfers, and the. Every single country in europe has 85% of the dominant race within their countries. Wimmer: tried to count the number of wars in the century he was concerned.
