POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Revisionist Zionism, Labor Zionism, Religious Zionism
Document Summary
Primordialism: pre-modern routes of a nation, nations are ancient, national sentiments can be traced back generations, national sentiments are overpowering. Modernism: nations are a modern creation, most theorists believe that nations are modern. Industrialization, the creation of modern states, the expansion of mass literacy. Isaaces idols of the tribe ; natural; inherited from the past: geertz primordialism beliefs of people are indefinable and overpowering, smith antiquity. Nationalism is a result of the structural requirements of industrial society. Requires human beings that are mobile in the workforce. Requires that people know how to operate machinery and be able to read instructions. Factories and industries that are unsuccessful shuts down and therefore they need a mobile labor market. Needed the standardization of language through an expansive education system that makes people literate and makes them literate in the same language. Required the modern state so that it could standardize the education system and the language for its labor needs.
