National Identity Flashcards
What is nationality?
- state of be,ongoing to one or more states or nations
- represented by distinctive traditions, cultures and language
What is socially constructed through symbols such as flags?
National identity
What is a nation?
An imagined community
What does Philips et al argue?
- national curriculum supports the ideology of unified national identity
- eg. Teaching of national events through history lessons
What does Kumar argue?
- English find it difficult to say who they are and that English national identity is difficult to describe
- long history of colonialism developed a sense of missionary nationalism
- quest to expand Britishness may have diluted Englishness
What does Schuden argue?
All British people are socialised into a common national culture and identity
What does Hewitt argue?
- Britain has seen white backlash from the white working classes against what they perceive to be preferential treatment of ethnic minorities
- encouraged new form of white British nationalism or identity
What do other sociologists argue?
Nationality will become less and less significant in todays globalised society
What does Hall suggest?
- countries may display 3 different reactions to globalisation
- cultural homogenisation, cultural hybridity, cultural resistance
What do fair weather and Rogerson say cultural homogenisation is due to?
- computer software
- advertising
- antisocial behaviour
- digital communication does not give rules or police morality and ethics
How does computer software encourage cultural homogenisation?
All using same technology globally such as apple or google
How does advertising encourage cultural homogenisation?
All being advertised same western products globally
How does antisocial behaviour encourage cultural homogenisation?
Reflect western ideas about morality and deviance
How does digital communication lacking rules and policing of morality and ethics encourage cultural homogenisation?
All being exposed to the same online deviance and lack of protection
