Indeed, Anderson famously defines the nation as imagined “because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (p. A paradox of the modern age is that although many feel that the nation is our natural community, we do not know the vast majority of the other people who constitute this group. Anderson addresses a number of central sociological issues associated with belonging and cultural communities.
Imagined communities is a term coined by Benedict Anderson (1983) in an influential book on the emergence and persistence of the nation.
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