GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chopsticks, America West Airlines, Clothing
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Review globalization is both a continuation of earlier social processes, and the emergence of newer social processes. Nation: refers to a group of people who regard themselves as being one people, a folk, by virtue of culture. A sense of belonging together as a meaningful group based on shared culture rooted in: Institutionalized and patterned set of beliefs, values, behaviours and practices. Beliefs (eg. ideas about meaning of life and death) Values (eg. how to lead the good life?) Practices (covering/uncovering of head as sign of respect) Nationalism: a nation is a group of people that see itself as being a people, that is, belonging together in some meaningful sense as a. 2 unit, and as having its own identity and as being separate and distinct from other groups. Nationalism: the drive of a nation to get its own state. Nationalist movements push for independence while regional blocs increase contradictions of human condition.
