POLS 150 Lecture 28: 11/22

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 150
• Professor: Alan Segui

Document Summary

Diff from nation (where u get to choose) Ie immigrants identifying as american as their national community. 1: no objective standard membership i. ii. Race vs nation: difference, race: don"t get to decide membership unlike nationality, similarity, both social constructions* i. By products that are used to define their marker with cultural component or cultural meaning: who gets to decide where you belong to? b. Identity markers with cultural meanings : consensus in society, elite in society (has power, economic elite, state members, key: you don t make the decision to choose, ethnicity i. Individual has significant say of membership a: social constructs: identity markers used that has cultural component or meaning in it, definition +membership largely based on fundamentally based characteristics/factors that unite/define i. Ie history, culture, ancestry, language etc: basically the same with 1 fundamental difference, nationality is also focused on power unlike ethnicity i.