SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Charismatic Authority, Universal Access To Education, Upper Class
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Links the topic of citizenship and politics. When asked a question about their nationality, a person may answer: american, british, However, if answering british, the person may also answer english or welsh or scottish. As it happens, both answers are proper responses to the question of nationality, but refer to different things. When answering british, they are indicating that they are a british subject; that is, a citizen of the state called great britain or the united kingdom. When answering english, they are reporting the fact that they belong to the english nation. Nationalism can be a unifying force and can be diverse and deadly. A question about nationality makes both answers possible and acceptable and demonstrates how the two memberships are not clearly distinguished from each other and thus may become confused. Yet while state and nation may overlap, they are quite different things and a person"s membership of each involves them in very different kinds of relationships.
