SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hegemony, Breakup Of Yugoslavia, United Nations General Assembly
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The rise of the nation-state across the world, 1816 to. All other states were still governed on the basis of other: theocracies religious leaders, dynastic states king and prince. The once revolutionary template of political legitimacy - A quantitative approach to historical processes comes. According to gellner (1983), the epochal shift from an agricultural to an industrial society brings about nationalism and eventually the nation-state. The industrial mode of production, by contrast, needs a mobile and flexible labor force. A rationalized, standardized education in a common language provides workers with the generic skills to shift from job to job and communicate effectively with strangers. The educational apparatus of a nation-state eventually provides the new, standardized, and homogenized culture that industrial societies need. Starting in the sixteenth century, permanent war between competing european states made techniques of governmental control and resource extraction ever more effective and efficient.
