First Exam: Study Guide Week 1 1. J. G. A. Pocock, ―The Ideal of Citizenship Since Classical Time,‖ in Gershon Shafir ed., The Citizenship Debates: a reader, pp. 31-41. (1) ―Aristotle‘s formulation depends upon a rigorous separation of public from private, of polis from oikos, of persons and actions of things.‖ What does this separation tell us about Aristotle‘s view of citizenship? To qualify as a citizen, the individual must be the patriarch of a household or oikos, in which the labor of slaves and women satisfied his needs and left him free to engage in political relationships with his equals. (2) What is the legal or juristic conception of citizenship? Citizenship as a legal status, carrying with it rights to certain things (3) What is the difference between the Aristotelian and the legal conceptions of citizenship? An Aristotelian citizen, ruling and being ruled, took part in the making or detrmining of the laws by which he was governed. While the legal conception of citizenship refers to subjects having rights and immunities. 2. Michael Walzer, ―Citizenship.‖ in Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson, eds. Political Innovation and Conceptual Change, pp. 211-219. (1) What are the differences between the republican and the liberal views of citizenship? A. Republican views of citizenship: citizenship stood in some tension with family, religion,and private economic interest. For many of its male citizens, the city itself, the political community, was indeed the focal point of everyday life. In its public squares, its courts and assemblies, they might well find the greater part of their happiness. B. Liberal views of citizenship: to share in the "common Liberty" is to be protected against various sorts of danger: posed sometimes by other people, sometimes by the authorities themselves. They are not political people; they have other interests. For them the political community is only a necessary framework. 1. T. H. Marshall, ―Citizenship and Social Class,‖ in The Citizenship Debates: a reader pp. 93-111. (1) Marshall holds that citizenship consists of three parts. What are they? What does each part consist of? Citizenship consists of three sets of rights: civil, political, and social. Each set of rights has its formative period and is supported by certain institutions. Civil rights – 18th century * Rights necessary for individual freedom: liberty of the person, speech, thought, and faith, property & contracts, right to j
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