REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Feudal Fragmentation, Public Culture, Feudalism
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Bloody diversity exam summary december 2019. People feeling one (community of strangers, imagined community, intergroup, political community) Smith: a named population, sharing a historic territory, common myths and memories, mass public culture, a single economy and common rights and duties for all members. One homogeneous cultural community to support the state. Alter: idealized state entity, founded upon a linguistically, culturally and ethnically homogeneous nation . Gellner: state and nation should coincide, every nation has its own state, every state rooted in the nation, modern society with a homogeneous culture and language . Gellner: nationalism as the cultural glue of industrial societies, nationalism engenders nations, not the other way around nationalism is the general imposition of a high culture on society. Smith: nationalism is a modern phenomenon (agreement with gellner), nationalism involves a preoccupation with historical origins and cultural authenticity. Pyramidal structure reliant on exchange of land and protection for military support, loyalty and commodities.
