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pre-political party, shared customs, origins, history, and frequently language and religion
nations are anchient |
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| people who argue that ethnic identities are fixed by linguistic, racial, or religious background |
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| having to do with origins and beginnings |
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| an imagined-community inherently limited and sovereign |
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| political entity gives legitimacy and territorial sovereignty to a nation |
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| alternative forms of socio-political identiy (alternatives to nationality) |
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| forms or organizations that bridge nations but respect discrete national identities |
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| te ability to act or conceive of acting |
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| television, film, internet, magazines, newspapers, telecommunications |
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| thought leading to action |
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imagining oneself as one wants to be, choosing aspects of personal identity
(in addition to or instead of inherited identities of nationality, race, or gender) |
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| private thought that does not lead to action |
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| a social and political belief system about human life and culture |
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the study of being
(there are many ways of being) |
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| process of pruification, creating a uniform composition |
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| inclsion of different types (of people or things); multiple voices of meaning |
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| single vision of, or scheme for, a perfect society |
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| encompassig many visions of ways of living well |
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| a concept of ongoing refinement of life, usually according to western standards, of ten considered utopian by nature |
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| social groups unlinked from territory, identities separated from the identities of specific places |
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| displaced communities, any people or ethic populaion FORCED OR INDUCED to leave their homeland and the ensuing developments in their dispersal and culture |
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| the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single community. a cosmopolitan is 'at home' in many cultures, without giving up their particular identity or world view |
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| that which is made by humans. |
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| constructing an alternative to the norm through improvisation, for ex: using a sign post as a bike rack |
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| a technique of the empowered, a plan of control. ex: fixed seating in a theatre |
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| imagined nostalgia, a marketing strategy used to accelerate consumption by presenting products in the context of pasts that consumers never directly experienced |
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| a longing for pasts ACTUALLY experienced in ones lifetime |
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| aesthetic of the ephemeral |
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| various ways of working with an manipulating the dynamics of the ever-present possibility for change that characterizes contemporary life, be it in personal identity, products, virtual environments |
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| the end of modernity, the end of unilinear history and a unified aesthetic |
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| "big idea" global ties: religion, love, etc |
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| smaller groups; tattoo culture, foodie culture |
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establishes social status
cultured vs. uncultured
aspirational
aquired |
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determined by our choices
how culture shapes us
sees cultures (plural)
expressed in flags, type, dress |
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