Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities Analysis
1. Benedict Anderson/Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism: 1983 (Revised 2006)/Brooklyn, New York
2. What is the central theme – the topic – of the reading? “The reading is about....” Anderson articulates that a nation is an “imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (6). People will not meet every person in their community and nationalism has been proven to be hard to define. The people from the same community will keep in their minds the idea of what they have in common. The Marxist theory can not fully explain regimes fight against each other. The people must imagine the community, it’s not self-evident, but simply appears to be so.
Chapter 1
3. What is the ‘research puzzle’ or ‘dependent variable’ – the phenomenon that the author wishes to explain? After you have identified the dependent …show more content…
Why do the nations compel their inhabitants with their nationalism?
4. How does the author explain the puzzle (or, answer his/her research question)? In other words, what is his/her central argument? The reason for nations pushing their subjects to become more like the metropole. However, like the creoles in the Spanish Empire, these peoples cannot achieve more than administrative importance in their governments. Territorial expanse of creole secular pilgrimages was the model for Latin American nations, but the territorial expanses were imagined. Anderson talks about print-capitalism and he relays that the newspaper provided subjects an idea of what a nation should look like.
5. How does the author defend and substantiate his/her argument?
i. What methods does he/she use? ii. What procedure does he/she follow? How does s/he structure and organize his/her materials? Outline the steps in his/her argumentation. iii. What (kind of) evidence does he/she
2. What is the central theme – the topic – of the reading? “The reading is about....” Anderson articulates that a nation is an “imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (6). People will not meet every person in their community and nationalism has been proven to be hard to define. The people from the same community will keep in their minds the idea of what they have in common. The Marxist theory can not fully explain regimes fight against each other. The people must imagine the community, it’s not self-evident, but simply appears to be so.
Chapter 1
3. What is the ‘research puzzle’ or ‘dependent variable’ – the phenomenon that the author wishes to explain? After you have identified the dependent …show more content…
Why do the nations compel their inhabitants with their nationalism?
4. How does the author explain the puzzle (or, answer his/her research question)? In other words, what is his/her central argument? The reason for nations pushing their subjects to become more like the metropole. However, like the creoles in the Spanish Empire, these peoples cannot achieve more than administrative importance in their governments. Territorial expanse of creole secular pilgrimages was the model for Latin American nations, but the territorial expanses were imagined. Anderson talks about print-capitalism and he relays that the newspaper provided subjects an idea of what a nation should look like.
5. How does the author defend and substantiate his/her argument?
i. What methods does he/she use? ii. What procedure does he/she follow? How does s/he structure and organize his/her materials? Outline the steps in his/her argumentation. iii. What (kind of) evidence does he/she