imagined community

concept in sociology and political science, introduced by Benedict Anderson in the homonym book
Intangible concept Q1261621
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imagined community

Summary

imagined community is a concept[1]. It draws 207 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #205 of 912).[2]

Key Facts

  • imagined community's instance of is recorded as concept[3].
  • Imagined Communities is named after imagined community[4].
  • imagined community's subclass of is recorded as community[5].
  • imagined community's subclass of is recorded as philosophical concept[6].
  • imagined community's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/036g8n[7].
  • imagined community's described by source is recorded as Imagined Communities[8].
  • imagined community's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as imagined-communities[9].
  • imagined community's named by is recorded as Benedict Anderson[10].
  • imagined community's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as ethnographicTerms/afset009302[11].
  • imagined community's Encyclopedia of Ideas ID is recorded as imagined-community[12].

Why It Matters

imagined community draws 207 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #205 of 912).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). imagined community. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/imagined-community
MLA “imagined community.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/imagined-community.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_imagined-community_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{imagined community}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/imagined-community}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): imagined community — https://4ort.xyz/entity/imagined-community (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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