Chapter 4 States Without Nations: Reconstructing Society

Abstract

Education is the main training grounds for citizenship. With the decline of military conscription, it has the mission of instilling a sense of national civic consciousness (see Janowitz's, 1983, critique; also Merle, 2010). But it also inculcates world cognitive perspectives as well. Hence, “global citizens” emerge. They carry much larger macro frames of reference that go beyond the nation-state. This change adds another layer of complexity to national identity.

Citation

Kamens, D.H. (2012), "Chapter 4 States Without Nations: Reconstructing Society", Kamens, D.H. (Ed.) Beyond the Nation-State (Research in the Sociology of Education, Vol. 18), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 89-119. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3539(2012)0000018008