Nationality and identity: LT7

Question 1

What is nationality?

Answer 1

Having a citizenship of a nation-state

Question 2

How is national identity formed?

Answer 2

Through agencies of socialisation and reinforced through rituals and ceremonies

Question 3

British identity

Answer 3

no strong sense of British identity due to a wide variety of ethnic groups

Question 4

Schudson: Socialisation into nationality

Answer 4

socialised into British identity in serval ways:
. Common language
. Education
. National rituals
. The mass media

Question 5

what has globalisation caused?

Answer 5

change in national cultures and blurring national identities

Question 6

What do postmodernists say about globalisation changing identities?

Answer 6

Changes open up more opportunities for people to choose from, causing national identities to become less significant

Question 7

Orr

Answer 7

People oppose changes by constructing ‘negative identities’. this is when people construct there identity’s on how they are not