Introduction
- The history of citizenship is one of social struggle against pre-modern authorities, nobles and aristocracies, of class struggles and the demands of social movements, and no less of cultural, ethnic, indigenous protests against the long history of colonialism. Paths to citizenship in Europe have taken very different directions, as Charles Tilly has shown with regard to England, the Netherlands, Russia or Prussia. Max Weber's dictum of defining the state by the accomplishment of the monopolisation of the legitimate means of violence is of utmost significance for the history of citizenship. There can be no doubt that the experience of World War II prepared the ground for the twentieth-century idea of citizenship. Consequently the Western concept of citizenship has been promoted as a role model in the march towards modernity as peaceful, democratic and universalistic. Finally, this chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book.
Author details: | Jürgen MackertORCiDGND, Bryan S. TurnerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562278 |
ISBN: | 978-1-138-67288-8 (print) |
ISBN: | 978-1-315-56227-8 (online) |
Title of parent work (English): | The Transformation of Citizenship : Volume 3 Struggle, Resistance and Violence |
Subtitle (German): | citizenship and political struggle |
Publisher: | Routledge Taylor |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2017 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Release date: | 2017/06/29 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 14 |
First page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 14 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |