Sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman argued that gender was less a component of identity -fixed, static- that we take with us into our interactions, but rather the product of those interactions. ... And this might result in the primary association of women's identities and purposes with motherhood. ... Women are being excluded from formal political processes, expelled from the paid workforce, and denied reproductive freedom as their bodies and identities are maternalized . ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Nationalism is ostensibly a term which covers such elements as national consciousness, the expression of national identity and loyalty to the nation - "nation" itself being defined by Timothy Bancroft as: " a group of people identified as sharing any number of perceived or real characteristics - such as common ancestry, language, religion, culture, historical traditions and shared territory - the members of which can identify themselves and others as belonging to the group, united through some form of organisation, most often political." ... The people's national identity is said to...

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Cunningham and Flew see the ABC as an attempt to achieve a synthesis of these elements to create a sense of cultural identity (Cunningham and Flew, 2000: 237-240). ... Sartre supports this theory, stating that national identity emerges from international conflict and non-transparent relations as an embodied situated consciousness (Sartre, 1978). ... The resulting impact of these commercial outlets is the creation of a broad based ideology stemming not from individualism but from a mass media mechanism, and as a result, the sense of identity becomes less individual and more closely associated...

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Where the Early Modern Era was still deeply rooted in its recent past due to the ideals of communal sentiment, religion, and the rule of the monarchical government , the Modern Era saw the world transform from empires to nation states with respective national identities and hardened geographic boundaries. ... However, this system, though dominant, is under threat from competition, especially relating to rising countries such as China and Russia who maintain distance, as well as internal problems such as the threatened loss of cultural identity and meaning. ...

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Each change that America took was towards finding its identity, which thus leads to the expansion and definition of the term, freedom. ... These political ideologists illustrate how America moved from its chaotic and nave birth to its grasp on some vague sort of identity whereby liberty has been at its closest to being fully defined according to each author. ...

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Does a country create nationalism or does nationalism create a country? These are the main questions rooted in the study of nationalism. First appearing in England and introduced my Protestantism and eventually replaced by ones consciousness and dignity as an individual; nationalism is defined as th...

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Q: The concept of political culture is often used to explain a variety of features in the Irish political system. What, if any, has been the impact of Irish political culture on the political system in contemporary Ireland? Representative democracy is built on the idea that the people of a ...

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In Arora's article "What Do We Deserve?," the author muses on the question about how much what people bring home is fair or unfair, whether people deserve everything what they have or don't. Aurora brings up "three major approaches to distributive economic justice: libertarian, meritocratic, and eg...

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In most sports and some wars there are clear winners and losers, but for other events in life the outcomes are uncertain. For many years it has been customary to regard the French Revolution as the decisive turning point of modern European history. In spite of every storm and stress France st...

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A LIBERAL IN INDIA By Deepannita Misra I am an Indian. By default, I am a worshipper of secular, inclusive democracy and free speech. Freedom in thought and speech 'should' symbolize what I stand for, in theory. In reality, I am the Indian who repines about my right ...

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In "The Best Laid Plans," by Terry Fallis, political problems and personal identity crises are prominently featured as the main characters struggle to overcome political turmoil in small-town Ontario and Ottawa. ...

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During the late 1700's, two great revolutions occurred, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. These two historical events happened at the same time, but had a great number of differences and very little similarity. When French Revolution occurred, it turned into a very violent and blood...

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History Coursework To What Extent Did The Key Political Ideas Directly Influence Change And Development In Your Chosen Period Of Study? Throughout the 19th and 20th century many political ideas have helped change and shape society, to what it is presently today. The list is endless for w...

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