POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Industrial Society, Communitarianism

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Nation a group that wants to have its own states. Nation: group of people who believe they share a common fate, history, culture and language. Nationalism says that the state and nation should be congruent. Nationalism is the ideology of nations: completely wrong. Only occurs under modern conditions: a modern phenomenon, its this need for congruence that needs to be explained (never in human history did people insist that leaders should be of the same culture) Nations don"t exist in themselves, they are inventions, we perceive them as being natural. Nationalism comes out of the process of modernization. Europe consisted of high cultures and low cultures: monarchs and populations. Industrial society and need for universalization of high culture, need for a common culture, people need to be able to communicate with one another, communicate in non-context bound way, sharing a common language. Nations are therefore constructed, projects of elites (most fail), sometimes competing projects, products of aggregated individual beliefs.

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