SOCI 1002 Study Guide - Traditional Authority, Political Machine, Totalitarianism
19 Feb 2014
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Must have a specific territory and center of power. The state consists of the institutions responsible for formulating and carrying out a. State has a monopoly over the legitimate means of violence. Therefore, the state claims the sole right to apply coercive force. Imagined community, emotional and mental identification with. No single answer likely to satisfy everybody. The nation is not a "reality" in the same way in which the state may be defined. The state is "real" in the sense of having clearly drawn boundaries, both on the map and on the land. The same cannot be said about the nation. A nation is an "imagined community" because it exists as an entity in so far as its members mentally and emotionally "identify themselves" with a collective body. True, nations usually occupy a continuous territory, however, hardly any nations boast a monopoly of residence on any territory.
