Ideas, Identity and Society

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Ideas, Identity and Society
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Identity

• Society a broad term that refers to complex
  human organization, a collection of people bound
  by shared institutions that define how human
  relations should be conducted (44).
• Ethnicity
• Based on customs, language, religion, etc.
• Ascriptive (i.e., generally assigned at birth)
• Not inherently political

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Identity

• National Identity
• (defined in CG2 presentation)
• Inherently political
• The basis for nationalism
• Citizenship
• An individuals relationship to the state.
• Purely political and more easily changed than
  ethnic/national identity.
• The basis for patriotism.

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Conflict

• Ethnic
• Top-Down View
• Bottom-up view
• National

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Attitudes and Ideology

• Political Attitudes
• Focused on speed and methods of change.
• Basic spectrum radical, liberal, conservative
  and reactionary
• Particularistic i.e., context matters.
• Distinct from ideologies.

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Attitudes and Ideology

• Political Ideologies
• Set values and fundamental goals.
• 5 dominant examples liberalism, communism,
  social democracy, fascism and anarachism.
• Universalistic
• Distinct from Attitudes

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Attitudes and Ideology

• Fundamentalism fusion of the state with
  religious or other traditionalistic
  ideologies/philosophies.
• Political Culture
• Basic norms
• Determines which ideologies are likely to
  dominate.
• Unique to a given country or group.
• Distinct from attitudes and ideologies.

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