PPD 240g Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Good Citizen
8 Sep 2016
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Definitions of citizenship: what is citizenship or a citizen, citizen definition: A native, inhabitant, or denizen of any place : definition of citizenship (pg. Citizenship is the status and role which defines the authority and obligations of individual members of a community. This status and role may be formally codified in terms of qualifications, rights and obligations by constitutions, charters and laws, or informally determined by values, tradition and consensus : flatham"s high v. low, high citizenship. Hobbes: lowi"s legal v. ethical, legal. Qualifications, rights, responsibilities determined by constitutions and statutes. Qualifications, etc. , determined by values, culture, consensus, social mores. Based on membership in a community: sniderman"s supportive vs. Wants to share authority and practice self-government. More likely to criticize and resist government: committed. And dictated by custom, tradition, consensus: participation is granted by custom, tradition, consensus, basically, citizenship is about membership, rights, and responsibilities.
