PLSC 27600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chauvinism, Imagined Community, Meritocracy
31 Aug 2016
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Nationalism: academia doesn"t love nationalism because: All teachers/students should be treated equally regardless of national origin. Jjmthinks you don"t need to like it, just understand it because it is the most important driving political force in history: definitions. A concept that explains how people around the world are organized socially as well as politically. Jjm definition: a set of political beliefs which hold that a nation a body of individuals with characcteristics that purportedly distinguish them from other groups should have their own state+ Primarily political principle which holds that the national and political identities should be congruent gellner definition: israel-palestine. Nationalism is a relatively new ideology (no room for ancient hatreds) Zionism became popular in the 1800s at the same time as nationalism was in the air all over europe. Nation: particular kind of social group (but more than that, humans are naturally social animals, sense of oneness. Tight bonds among nation"s members / group solidarity / imagined community.
