Shifting Sands? Citizens' National Identities and Pride in Social Security in Canada

Raney, Tracey; Berdahl, Loleen

doi:10.1080/02722011.2011.594521

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“…While the role of social policy in nation-building has been explored extensively, 11 studies delving into the reciprocity involved in the relationship between national identity and social policy are a work in progress. 12 An important facet of the state nationalism-social policy nexus is how national identity and policy preferences influence each other. States have historically used social policy to project values and preferences linked to particular conceptions of national identities.…”

Section: State Nationalism and Social Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of Nationalism (SoN): Revisiting the Nationalism and Social Policy Nexus

Gomes,

Béland,

Hays-Alberstat

et al. 2023

Studies on National Movements

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Territory and solidarity are two central components of contemporary politics whose connection has come to be embodied in two quite different political phenomena: nationalism and the welfare-state. Nationalism is a form of politics linking territory (a homeland) to a special sense of solidarity deemed to supersede all others (i.e., non-national cleavages). The welfare state represents the tangible manifestation of social solidarity between citizens of a territorially-anchored community.

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Section: State Nationalism and Social Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of Nationalism (SoN): Revisiting the Nationalism and Social Policy Nexus

Gomes,

Béland,

Hays-Alberstat

et al. 2023

Studies on National Movements

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“…Two questions consistently problematize citizenship education 34 Osborne, 2003). Despite the sensitive territory, group identities have nonetheless been examined because of their powerful potential to impact human behaviour and social preferences (Carter, 2013;Charnysh, Lucas, & Singh, 2015;Chen & Li, 2009;Benjamin, Choi, & Strickland, 2010;Hooghe & Quintelier, 2013), especially as they relate to political identities, opinions, and actions (Ashizawa, 2008;Berdahl & Raney, 2010;Caron, 2012;Nimijean, 2005;Raney & Berdahl, 2011;Raney & Berdahl, 2009). Thus, it is important to investigate the civic subjectivities of Canadians in these changing times as they can impact civic attitudes and actions.…”

Section: The Context Of Citizenship Education Policy and Programs In mentioning

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Vocabularies of Citizenship: West Coast Secondary Students Describe Their Civic Subjectivities, Skills, and Classrooms

Elbert

2017

JCIE

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Canada's changing geopolitical landscape will require a generation of engaged and active citizens. Citizenship education in British Columbia must negotiate conflicting narratives while opening spaces for students to develop civic skills and subjectivities. Given negative program reviews, empirical evidence for the impact of identity -especially group identifications -on behaviours and beliefs, and continued low youth political engagement, there is a great need to understand how citizenship and civic subjectivities are constructed in real school contexts in order to gain insight into how secondary civics classrooms might support students' active political voices and development of efficacious subjectivities. This article reports preliminary results from a large mixed methods, multiple-case study project. The data reported here focuses on students (n = 64) from two purposefully sampled secondary school classrooms on Vancouver Island: a special civics program, and a regular stream Social Studies classroom in the same school. Data collection consisted of a class-wide online survey near the beginning of the course. Grounded in the larger understandings of social identity theory and rooted cosmopolitanism, qualitative data from open-ended questionnaire responses analyzed with a constant comparative coding technique explored the extent to which students construct regional, national, or global notions of citizenship. A preliminary report of quantitative items investigates the level of conflict present between levels of identification and suggests avenues for future research. Examined against previous research and the theory of rooted cosmopolitanism, this project aims to question the popular narrative of youth apathy and to describe the ways in which students characterize their civic subjectivities. In giving voice to student perspectives on their civic selves and their Civics classrooms, this study aims to contribute to more representative classrooms and pedagogies.

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Wahrnehmung im Widerspruch? Blank und Schmidts Item‑Kategorisierung auf dem Prüfstand

Bitschnau

Mußotter

2023

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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For more than two decades, the work of Blank and Schmidt has greatly influenced empirical research on national attachment. Distinguishing between nationalism, patriotism, and national identity, it rests on a set of item batteries that have since been taken up by numerous researchers. In this contribution, we argue that the categorization of most of these items is inconsistent with the perception of a nonexpert sample and, in some cases, even in direct opposition to it. To substantiate this claim, we present the results of an online survey of German university students (N = 424) who were tasked with assigning all items from Blank and Schmidt’s 1997 article to one of the three categories. As hypothesized, the majority of respondents assigned only a few items correctly—so few that their overall agreement with Blank and Schmidt was even lower than what would normally be expected from a random distribution. We also asked about item understandability and found that while some items were considered relatively difficult to understand, there was no obvious correlation between these and the miscategorized ones. Taking this discrepancy between academic and nonacademic concept use into account can further our understanding of national attachment and help us refine existing survey techniques.

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Shifting Sands? Citizens' National Identities and Pride in Social Security in Canada

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

The State of Nationalism (SoN): Revisiting the Nationalism and Social Policy Nexus

The State of Nationalism (SoN): Revisiting the Nationalism and Social Policy Nexus

Vocabularies of Citizenship: West Coast Secondary Students Describe Their Civic Subjectivities, Skills, and Classrooms

Wahrnehmung im Widerspruch? Blank und Schmidts Item‑Kategorisierung auf dem Prüfstand

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