PSCI252 Lecture 5: Culture, Identity and Development

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Shared set of norms, beliefs and recurring practice of people in a society. Self-understanding based on membership in a group larger than the family. Race - a category of people who share some biologically determined and easily physical traits that society has deemed to be social significance ly observed. Ethnicity - a group identification based on shared history, language, values an practices and. Human beings are 99. 9% identical genetically - we are a lot more similar think ar than we. Groups sharing common political institutions and territorial sovereignty. Nationalism - shared feelings and expressions of national identity. Not all nations have their own territorial circumscribed state. A set of beliefs, moral codes, ritual, symbols, and supporting organizations tha humanity to spirituality and the supernatural that relate. Article published in 1993, expanded into a book in 1996. In response to western euphoria after the end of the cold war.

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