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Definition: citizenship from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

(1611) 1 : the status of being a citizen 2 a : membership in a community (as a college) b : the quality of an individual's response to membership in a community


Citizenship

From Encyclopedia of Social Problems
Citizenship is both a legal status and a social identity. Legally, citizenship refers to an individual’s political status, rights, and obligations in a nation, for example, the right to political representation or participation in the judicial process in that nation. Socially, citizenship refers to an individual’s membership in a political organization or community. Whereas legal citizenship is closely linked to nationalism, the social conception of citizenship focuses on individual or group political ideology. In both, however, notions of morals, good standing, and social responsibility elements of so-called active citizenship are central to what it means to be a citizen. Legal citizenship comprises several types. For example, in the United States, citizenship occurs through birth, naturalization, or, rarely, through an act of Congress and presidential assent. Any person born in a U.S. territory or from U.S. citizen parent(s) automatically becomes an U.S. citizen. In other countries, …
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
The notion of citizenship can be traced back to the Greek polis that tied rights to membership of the city , excluding women and slaves. The modern version of citizenship is connected to the twin processes of nation building and industrialization following the American and French Revolutions. …
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Full text Article CITIZENSHIP

From Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment
Citizenship is a term used to describe the relationship between an individual and the state. The concept of citizenship is imprecise and contested. The dictionary definition is ‘a native or inhabitant of a state’, and the term is often used in a narrow sense related to immigration or nationality…
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From The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
The concept of citizenship as a status that provides access to rights and powers is associated with MARSHALL (1963). Civic rights comprise freedom of speech and equality before the law. Political rights include the right to vote and to organize politically. Socio-economic rights include economic…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
member of a state, native or naturalized, who owes allegiance to the government of the state and is entitled to certain rights. Citizens may be said to enjoy the most privileged form of nationality ; they are at the furthest extreme from nonnational residents of a state (see alien ), but they may…
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From Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
1 . The legal conception of an individual who owes allegiance to, and receives protection from, a state . Conditions of citizenship are determined for each state in accordance with its own legal provisions, and it is not necessary that everyone who resides within the jurisdiction of a particular…
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From Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
:a native or naturalized individual who owes allegiance to a government (as of a state or nation) and is entitled to the enjoyment of governmental protection and to the exercise of civil rights —see also Scott v. Sandford in the Important Cases section — Amendment XIV to the Constitution in the back…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
A film (1941) based on a screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953), which looks back on the life and career of fictional newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (played by Orson Welles, who also directed the film). Commonly listed among the best movies ever made, it was a thinly disguised…
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From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary
(14c) 1 :  an inhabitant of a city or town; esp :  one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman 2 a :  a member of a state b :  a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it 3 :  a civilian as distinguished from a specialized…
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Full text Article Citizen Science

From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Glossary Crowdsourcing Contributions (obtaining content or completing tasks) from the public, typically through the Internet Citizen data collection Volunteers record observations and collect data on phenomena in the physical world, contributing to…
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Full text Article Citizen Participation

From Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies
Citizen participation is at the heart of democracy. Unless citizens can participate freely in the government process, democracy is not possible. There are two main reasons for this. The instrumental reason is that governments are made accountable and responsive as a consequence of elections and…
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