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Imagined community
ConceptAn imagined community involves a sense of shared membership among people who cannot all know one another personally.
Explanation or usage
Shared stories, symbols or practices can make distant members think of themselves as belonging together. Imagined does not mean imaginary or without real effects. The concept describes how belonging is conceived rather than requiring face-to-face acquaintance.
Common misunderstandings
Imagined means fraudulent or socially inconsequential.
In Imagined communities
General context reviewed · book attribution and sources pending
Proposed Chapter 1 context: apply Anderson’s account to national belonging while keeping the definition useful beyond one book.