SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Group Cohesiveness, Ethnic Nationalism, Jus Soli
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4 dimensions of citizenship: legal status, rights, political participation, and sense of belonging. Belonging (political exclusion and nation-building: social issue, makes a distinction between we" vs. they", built-in mechanism of political exclusion gives us a solid sense of we-ness , states are impart cul- tural or social meaning. Citizenship is usually deined as a form of membership in a political and geographic com- munity. Citizenship entails legal, political, and cultural meaning. 1950 essay titled citizenship and social class . Main concern: capitalism, inequality and citizenship in postwar era: growing inequality, desire to maintain a democratic society. Defines citizenship as: a claim to be accepted as full members of the society . His evolutionary theory encompasses changes over several centuries. Through institutionalization of a welfare state in western societies: rise of social rights did not happen automatically, gaining rights in different historical stages full member of society. This ensures full membership of individuals in a society.
