Essays on Citizenship

Relatively early in their book on digital citizenship, Engin Isin and Evelyn Ruppert caution their readers: ‘We cannot simply assume that being a citizen online already means something (whether it is the ability to participate or the ability to stay safe) and then look for...

Introduction If we look at from very simplistic perspective, nearly all people are citizens of at least one country in the world. That gives the certain rights, and obligations. Furthermore, people can have ‘multiply or dual citizenship’, meaning that they are citizens of two or...

In an organization, certain behaviors are anticipated from an employee that is dependent on the organization’s rules and regulations. However, employees tend to do things that are beyond their responsibilities and exhibit these behaviors out of their own desire. This is what we call Organizational...

Citizenship bestows upon individuals legal, political and social dimensions. Access to citizenship was illustrated by how membership was determined. Ancient society witnessed the restriction of the access to citizenship as certain groups were not entitled to participate in activities belonging to citizens. The access to...

Haitian society was segregated by skin color, class, and gender. The “white” population comprised grands blancs (usually merchants and landowners/royalty), petits blancs (craftsmen), and blancs menants (peasants). The affranchis, who were mostly mulattoes, were sometimes slave owners themselves. They aspired to hold the economic/social levels...

Athenian democracy has provided a fundamental, archetypal foundation for the contemporary political landscape witnessed present-day. Socrates’ vigilant efforts to democratize truth are demonstrative of an exorbitant level of consciousness which irrefutably exceed that of the polis by comparative measure; Socrates renounced this sociopolitical structure to...

But that one, individual vote that each was fighting for… was it really worth it? Does a single vote even make a difference? In fact, the numbers say no. I know of no major election that came down to a single deciding vote; even those...

The importance of organisational citizenship behaviour has been underestimated for a long time, until in the 1960’s Katz (1964) recognised that not only it plays a fundamental role in the formation of organisations, it also allow these to work effectively.Organisational citizenship behaviour, also referred to...

This essay intends to give solid arguments in favor of giving legal citizenships to children whose parents entered illegally to a country in which they are being raised. However, this citizenship should not be given to everyone, but only to those who are able to...

Both Joseph Tussman and John Mueller have very similar views on human nature. However, both have very contrasting views on how human nature affects citizenship. While Tussman argues to reshape human nature to produce the ideal citizen, Mueller looks to work with flaws. I believe...

The hospitality industry is the most favorable industry among people in a Western context because it is the back that provides customer service, quality of employee-customer relationships and other factors. In this review, organizational citizenship behavior becomes main facets in the hospitality industry because of...

Citizenship is an ongoing discourse regarding the rights and responsibilities concerning the individual and their relationship with communities they inhabit, which are often being discussed in our contemporary society. I will review the three ‘competing visions’ (Alcock, P., May, M., and Wright, S. 2016) of...

In 2017, the highest number of individuals (22,102) in the past 10 years was granted citizenship while 31,050 people were given permanent residency in Singapore. The number of permanent residents increased steadily to 527,000 from 287,500 in 2010.Immigration is the key for the development of...