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INTRODUCTION. Since the late 1980s citizenship has become a key concept in the discourse on social science, education, and “top politics". This revived interest in the concept is striking because for several decades after a period immediately after the Second World War where the meaning of the concept was widely
But citizenship is more than a legal designation. It is also a cultural ideal. It is infused with moral meaning, encompassed by normative principles, values, and expectations that all derive from the social, historical, and cultural context of the times. How, for example, does one's identity as a citizen relate to other sources of
forms were deemed to be political and territorial in which people were defined as citizens. Eastern forms, by contrast, defined people – according to Kohn – as ethnic. People as citizens, as it were, versus people as folk. Whereas in the West, nationalism was a state-led ideology driven by a concern for individual liberty and
The thesis argues that the full concept of citizenship should be seen as containing legal, political and social dimensions. The concept can be viewed from all of these three angles. The first means that citizenship is connected with certain rights, like the right to vote or stand for election, the right to property and so on. In most
?To be a citizen in the legal and sociological sense means to enjoy the rights of citizenship necessary for agency and social and political participation. To act as a citizen involves fulfilling the potential of that status, (Lister 1997a: 41).
communication fostered by the Internet and telephony. While it is hard to quantify these numbers, or to give global citizens a legally defined political status, these qualifications do not obviate the existence and influence of transnational activists seeking new institutional forms in an interdependent world. We examine global
and cultural changes. The historical context for such changes should be considered where appropriate. All pupils, regardless of their legal or residential status, should explore and develop their understanding of what it means to be a citizen in the. UK today. Community cohesion: Citizenship offers opportunities for schools
The ambiguous meaning of citizenship. Ulrich K. Preuss. Professor of Law and Politics, Free University Berlin. Paper presented at the University of Chicago Law School to the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism. December 1, 2003. At one point in human history somebody had the idea that the handling of the affairs of
Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation. A person may have multiple citizenships and a person who does not have citizenship of any state is said to be stateless. Nationality is often used as a synonym for citizenship in

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February 2018