PO264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sidney Verba, Gabriel Almond, Subculture
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Nation: a community of people, normally defined by a combination of ethnicity, language, and culture, with a subjective sense of belonging together and a right to self-determination (canada as a multi- cultural nation) National identity: a strong emotional attachment to a state, its institutions and its territory, an identification with national symbols, heroes, myths, etc. Culture: the total living pattern of a society, an umbrella term that encompasses the formal and informal institutional arrangements of a society as well as the attitudes, beliefs, norms, values and expectations of that society. It is not static, changes over time: national identity focus on emotional attachment identification and feeling, culture involve in both subjective or non-subjective facts about the nation. Subculture: distinctive formal and informal institutional arrangements and/or collections of values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and orientations held by smaller groups within society. Some examples of subcultures: province/region based, language based, ethnicity based, class based, gender based: differences and competition among in-between differences subcultures.
