ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Red Sox Nation, Kimchi, Public Sphere
Document Summary
Nations and society: foundations of modern states. Private spheres occupied by family, religion etc. Public sphere occupied by state granting freedom, equality. Foundation of states: the people: identifying the people: Nation: political project binding people geographically and culturally. Language, geographies, cultural objects (kimchi: nation-states: Primordialism: nation as ancient, natural entity, born into nation (red sox nation) -> brain-washed by parents who are brain-washed by their parents (red sox fans hereditary?) 1 maandag 25 februari 2019: nation as socially constructed entity, imagined community". Nationalist institutions: conscription and military service, mass education, mass media. Society: ethnic, religious, other groupings -> organic process, used for political purposes, national identity. Political aspiration for independent state based on geographical and cultural boundary. Often develop into nationalism, by which people believe in their unique shared identity: ethnic identity. Set of institutions that bind people through common culture. Institutionalized, hereditary, constructive: social solidarity, internal equality. Social, unclear, destructive: social conflict, competitions for dominance.
