HR100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Utopia, Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism
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Civic nation: where national identity depends primarily on acceptance of the political order . Recall the nature of the relationship of the origins of the nation and the state as well as the prevalence of action states in the world: Original nations were affected created by the save process that formed states. Not all people in the nation-state as a member of the nation . Civil society: the realm of organized social life that is open, voluntary, self-generating, at least potentially self-supporting, autonomous from the state, and bound by a legal order or set of shared rules. Social pluralism: maintain their unique cultural identities, and their values and practices are accepted by the wider dominant culture provided they are consistent with the laws and values of the wider society. Elite rule: a situation where a minority of the population takes the major decisions in the society.