Literature Review #2

2. This book discusses in detail the concept of an imagined community. It defines it as a great form of nationalism in which people feel very connected to one another through many common traits such as tradition, ethnicity, religion etc. This results in a group of people looking out for one another instead of a bunch of individuals living together, each operating for their own benefit. The community sees itself as something divine/ greater than the individual.
3.Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991. Print.

4. He is a professor at Cornell University who focuses on International Studies, Government in Eastern Asia, and in general a historian.
5.nationalism- this concept that people are united by ancestral experiences which form them into a community, this theory comes into existence as a result of the decline of religion and monarchism which is the result of increasingly industrialized and enlightened societies needing to create some sort of continuity among their populace, especially in growing imperial nations, it allows people to work for the betterment of the state so that it can out compete other states
community- it is what is formed when people feel like they know other people who they have never met because of the supposed common bonds which the two of them share, this creates a basic system of these two people wanting to work together to ensure both of their successes
6. "Nor is this tendency confined to the socialist world" (Anderson 3)
Nationalism is, "...cultural artifact of a particular kind... command such profound emotional legitimacy.... a variety of political and ideological constellations." (Anderson 4)
'...belonging within a kinship" (Anderson 5)
7. This book will be used to show that the decline of the concept of imagined community in the United States during the 70s, especially the 80s caused privatization to become an ever increasing part of the funding process of higher education. Americans no longer saw higher education as something good for the community. It served to only help individuals. Thus, the people demanded that they not pay for other people to go to college. Therefore, federal funding during, especially conservative eras, was cut towards higher education. Paying for school and accumulated debt is the responsibility of the individual and a cost of getting ahead, not that of the community's.