citizenship

Scope Note

Conception of the relationship of the individual to the government; territorial versus kinship affiliation; distinctions between citizens and residents, and between different categories of citizens; rights, duties, privileges, powers, and liabilities of the citizen or subject (e.g., civil liberties, franchise, liability to military service); acquisition of citizenship (e.g., naturalization); loss of citizenship (e.g., through serious crime); notions of civic virtues; etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 640 government institutions

Related Terms

• 167 external migration
• 186 cultural identity and pride
• 466 labor relations
• 560 social stratification
• 651 taxation and public income
• 663 public service
• 666 elections
• 683 offenses against the person
• 687 offenses against the state
• 690 justice
• 701 military organization
• 745 social insurance
• 829 ethnosociology
• 884 majority