Chapter 13 Flashcards
the political procedure of guaranteeing that groups will have representation in governments by setting aside offices in the government specifically for those groups
communal representation
the concept that groups with a distinct culture and identity have a right to choose their own political arrangements and their own collective destiny
self determination
a political system in which a formal centralized government has power over a delimited territory to make enforce laws etc
state
a corporate group that shares an identity based on such traits as history, culture and a shared political destinity
nations
a state that contains only and all of one nation
nation state
a state that contains some or all of two or more nations
multinational state
a nation or cultural group that is divided across two or more state borders
multi state nation
a social movement to achieve recognition, rights and sometimes an independent state for a nation
nationalism
a social group that has not yet achieved the mobilization and self awareness that characterized a nation
prenational people
a group that has not yet achieved national intergration and self consciousness but that is in the process of achieving them or has charcteritics necessary to achieve them
potential nation
a national group tht emerges as a local or historical branch of an older and larger group eventually getting its own culture and identity
offshoot nation
a corporate grouo based on some shared cultural trait and finds itself in competition with other groups for wealth, power etc
ethnic group
the dispersion of social group from its historical homeland
diaspora
the organization and mobilization of groups and parties on the basis of shared cultural charcteristics
identity politics
the use of force and terror by a state government against its own people
state terrorism
