national idenitiy

Question 1

Anderson

Answer 1

Argues that a nation is an ‘imagined country’-members of that nation will never meet most of their fellow members.
National identity is socially constructed through symbols and festivals.
printing tech and mass newspaper circulation has created a ‘national’. language.

Question 2

PHILLIPS ET AL

Answer 2

Argues the national curriculum supports nationalism, especially history as it portrays the country it is being taught in their eyes, giving a collective identity.

Question 3

SCHUDEN

Answer 3

Argues British people are socialised into a common national identity through common language, education, national rituals, symbols.

Question 4

SADAR

Answer 4

Argued the current global identity crisis that separates capitalist v communist had broken down. ‘Englishness’ is meaningless to the majority of the population.

Question 5

HALL

Answer 5

Globalisation has occurred because of cultural resistance. Certain groups who resist this to protect their cultural heritage become traditional and nationalistic-the english identity has become negative and exclusive.

Question 6

Hewitt

Answer 6

Argues Britain has seen a ‘white backlash’ where there is preferential treatment ti ethnic minorities. In the education system youth white argued they felt victimised by teachers and would be presumed racist if they started a fight with an ethnic student.

Question 7

hall

Answer 7

Another response to globalisation would be cultural homogenisation-people accept global culture and all communities becoming more similar.

Question 8

McLuhan

Answer 8

predicts the creation of a global village from increasing interconnectedness due to the electronic nervous system. The progression in digital communication allows everyone to be involved in each other’s life.

Question 9

hall

Answer 9

A response to globalisation is cultural hybridity-people take part in some parts of global culture but still keep individual culture. There is no longer any British identity due to our multicultural society.

Question 10

les back

Answer 10

His ethnocentric study of council estates in London proved cultural hybridity between black, white and asian youths who shared each other’s cultures. They developed a ‘neighbourhood nationalism’