What is a nation

What is a nation is a short film from 1961 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

Stoessinger, professor of political science, and two guests, anthropologist Carleton Stevens Coon, and psychologist Otto Klineberg, present their views on why people organize into nation states and on the characteristics of the state. Mr. Klineberg f...

What is a nation
Release date	1961
Running time	0:29:39

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71136

Summary

Stoessinger, professor of political science, and two guests, anthropologist Carleton Stevens Coon, and psychologist Otto Klineberg, present their views on why people organize into nation states and on the characteristics of the state. Mr. Klineberg feels that states arise from a desire for personal identification with a group out of which rises a sense of national identification. Mr. Coon believes that the state is an outgrowth of the mammalian instinct to have boundaries and economic securities. From small groups of families grow villages and ultimately states. Dr. Stoessinger emphasizes that the will to join must be present.

Physical Format

1 Film (0:29:39)

16mm

IUL Genres

Educational

Political

IUL Subject

Educational television programs.

Full Original Title

What is a nation