PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Slippery Slope, Bargaining Power, Meritocracy
12 Sep 2020
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Nation: derived from latin narsci" (to be born); a community bound together by three dimensions: Political dimension (statehood or a form of self-rule) Seton-watson: the members of a nation must feel that they are bound together by a sense of solidarity, a common culture and a national consciousness". A nation exists if a significant number of people in a community consider themselves to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one". National identity can fluctuate over time; e. g. catalonia. Nationalism: the ideology that seeks to further the idea of the nation in its cultural political and psychological dimensions. Nationalism: the making of combined claims, on behalf of a population to identify to jurisdiction and to territory. Self-government may not be required: black population in the us, roma (gypsies) movement in central europe. Claims can be accommodated by pursuing integrationist (citizenship) or multicultural politics (group rights). Are first nations ethnic groups or are they nation; e. g. aboriginals in australia.
