National Identity and Citizenship: A Sociological Perspective

About the Other:

Ian Morrison has a PhD in sociology from the university of York University Canada, and is part of the sociology department in ______ In his work, Ian Morrison focuses in two main topics - National Identity and Rethinking Citizenship .His main ways of addressing the topics are by questioning the issues of identity, religion, secularism and nationality. Some of his selected publications include “The Crisis and Governance of Religious Pluralism in the European Union” (2014), “Rancière, Religion and the Political” (2013), “Rethinking the ‘Problem’ of Religious Pluralism in Canada and the European Union.” (2008)

The main argument:

The Main argument of Ian Morison is that the Identity of Europe cannot be determine only as only as absolute but rather depends on specific times and events. In order to exaine this Idea, The chapter tryes to raise the question of the religion identity of Europe as it

In the core of the debate about the possibility of turkey to be a member state of the EU stand the question who can be considered to be European. Morrison follows an academic debate, and analyze the question of Europe’s identity with the help of two compete definitions – ‘thin’ and ‘thick’. The ‘thin’ definition marks the European Identity by “a set of economic, institutional and legal principles, including the rule of law, democracy, human rights and secular governess.” According to that definition, the criteria of being European is only the willingness and ability to follow the civil norms and laws. However, as opposed to the ‘thin’ definition, the ‘thick’ definition identify Europeans as having a common characteristic derives from a shared history and culture. According to that definition, no one - people or states can become Europeans it is matter of birth into