POLS 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dementia, Alexis De Tocqueville, Neurosis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Oded Haklai

Document Summary

Gell(cid:374)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374): (cid:862)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)alis(cid:373) is p(cid:396)i(cid:373)a(cid:396)il(cid:455) a politi(cid:272)al p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iple that holds that the politi(cid:272)al a(cid:374)d the (cid:374)atio(cid:374)al u(cid:374)it should (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)g(cid:396)ue(cid:374)t. (cid:863) Idea that nations should have a political unit (state) or national unit (=population: congruent :. Not all nations engage in nationalism i. e. roma nation, quebec nationalism. Nations as constructed (product of modernity: primodrial theories of nationalism. Clifford gertz: anthropological primordialism (executive national boundaries) Canadian), willing to do more for our nation than any other socially constructed (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ities o(cid:396) ide(cid:374)tities :. Pre-existed modernity: acknowledges that contemporary national identity is affected by modernity, but the core is the ethnes provided the cultural, linguistics to creating the identity. *imagined communities: modernization created the conditions for imagined communities to grow. 19th century: to get a standard curriculum, build schools, we need 6243$ from taxes -> requires a state/ govt, states created nations out of disparate people. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g as i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals: those rights attributed to individuals in liberalism are adopted into the nation.