Derek Heater: The Western Concept Of Citizenship
1. The components of citizenship:
• Background and History
• What does it entail? Who does it apply to?
• The Western concept of citizenship
Citizenship is a concept that keeps developing over time; the way it is materialized may change depending on the era and certainly on geographical location.(turner, oxford/) Each era had a different interpretation of what it is and what it stands for.
In Paul Clarke’s book on Citizenship we are able to view these transitions and developments clearly in addition to Derek Heater’s book A Brief History of Citizenship. Such as Sparta, Athens, the Stoics, Rome, to mention a few later moving through the stages until reaching the concept of what citizenship entails today. An example of evolving citizenship would be in Rome and the method of registering newborn babies. First just the act of holding your child was sufficient to make him a citizen part of the community later it had to be done in front of a government official …show more content…
Whereas, Riesenburg differs, he divides citizenship into two main historical phases. The first phase is the time when small communities lived together, and being good citizens meant how do you do good for the community. In accordance with Heater “Good citizens are those who are deferent to the social and political system, are law-abiding, and who exercise self-control.”(Heater, p.15
The second phase was after 18th century and the revolutions, this here is where things being to change. Democratic and nationalistic types of citizenship being to appear and a new set of loyalties arise. Writers such as Locke viewed it as the need to belong somewhere or the person was useless. He faced issues trying to deal with those that weren’t capable of being citizens or did not fit in the active citizen group i.e. foreigners, the elderly and
• Background and History
• What does it entail? Who does it apply to?
• The Western concept of citizenship
Citizenship is a concept that keeps developing over time; the way it is materialized may change depending on the era and certainly on geographical location.(turner, oxford/) Each era had a different interpretation of what it is and what it stands for.
In Paul Clarke’s book on Citizenship we are able to view these transitions and developments clearly in addition to Derek Heater’s book A Brief History of Citizenship. Such as Sparta, Athens, the Stoics, Rome, to mention a few later moving through the stages until reaching the concept of what citizenship entails today. An example of evolving citizenship would be in Rome and the method of registering newborn babies. First just the act of holding your child was sufficient to make him a citizen part of the community later it had to be done in front of a government official …show more content…
Whereas, Riesenburg differs, he divides citizenship into two main historical phases. The first phase is the time when small communities lived together, and being good citizens meant how do you do good for the community. In accordance with Heater “Good citizens are those who are deferent to the social and political system, are law-abiding, and who exercise self-control.”(Heater, p.15
The second phase was after 18th century and the revolutions, this here is where things being to change. Democratic and nationalistic types of citizenship being to appear and a new set of loyalties arise. Writers such as Locke viewed it as the need to belong somewhere or the person was useless. He faced issues trying to deal with those that weren’t capable of being citizens or did not fit in the active citizen group i.e. foreigners, the elderly and