POLSCI 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Primordialism, Imagined Communities, Academic Freedom

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 140
• Professor: Gallagher

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**hw assignment = choose your measure of democracy, democracy is the independent variable, academic freedom is dependent** Political identity power relationships of domination and oppression that exist between groups. The ways that individuals categorize themselves and others, and how they understand the. Varies in intensity and political saliency over time and individuals. Other differences are used to justify domination. The economic mode of production determines the superstructure of society. Capitalist society creates 2 main classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The proletariat gain class consciousness via their labor in the capitalist system. Class identity should be stronger and lead to organization, class struggle, and eventually. Working classes in industrialized nations did not rise up. nationalism movements in ot revolution developing, rural countries did (ussr, china, vietnam, cuba) Believed that non-economic characteristics are the basis of indeity. Political mobilization is easier around non-economic factors especially those with. Political cleavages develop in different societies based on these non-economic divisions.