global citizenship

• socrates

  "i am not atheneian or a greek, but a citizen of the world"
• citizenship

  • How residents live in a particular area with previously agreed rights and responsibilities
  • Mediates the rights between constituents of a governing system and the system itself.
• global citizenship

  • the belief that all people have rights and civic responsibilities based on the reason that they reside on the world
• types:

  • open gc
  • moral gc
  • sociopolitical gc
• open global citizenship

  • believes that nations still exist and differ from one another
  • recognizes interdependence between different nations and the opportunities for cultural diversification
• moral global citizenship

  • focuses on the ethical aspect of global citizenship
  • emphasis on human rights, equality, and global responsibility
• sociopolitical global citizenship

  • focuses on social and governmental systems and structures around the world
  • advocates to shift the existing political power in order to advance global equality
• types of rights:

  • natural rights
  • constitutional rights
  • statutory rights
  • political rights
  • civil rights
  • socio-economic rights
  • rights of the accused
• duties

  • "to owe"
  • obligation to perform an action based on the law, social norms, or a moral standard
• types of duties:

  1. conscription
  2. taxation
  3. participation
• issues in global citizenship

  • conflict between global and national citizenship
  • conflict between global citizenship and individual differences
  • development of immigration for global citizenship