SOCI 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kellie Leitch, Lower Canada, Newfoundland French
17 Jan 2018
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State: a set of institutions associated with government and law that oversee a group of people in a particular territory. There can be different levels of government within the state (provinces) but at the highest (federal) level, the state is sovereign. Sovereign: government body has the power to govern without interference from outside bodies. Nation: a group of people united by shared territory and ethnicity: a nation is a territorial community of nativity. In other words, people are born into nations, when they are born in a certain territory. Ethnicity: classification of a group of people based on a common cultural, linguistic, or ancestral heritage. A nation-state is a sovereign state where the citizens are also united by factors associated with a nation. Country is a more general term referring to a group of people living under a single system of government in a defined territory. Culture: the symbols, values, norms, and material objects that societies create.
