Self and NationSAGE, 2000 M12 18 - 256 pages A `RARE BOOK′ FROM LOCAL AUTHORS `Here is a rare book, a truly helpful piece of work on the psychology of nationalism. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins, of St Andrews and Dundee Universities, focus much of their study of recent Scottish experience, drawing on inter-views with political activists. The cast light on why our `Unionists′ and nationalists feel so sure their side represents our national identity and the other lot doesn′t. For once it is a compliment to say a book raises more questions than it answers. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins open up large questions closer inspection′ - Glasgow Herald `In this impressive book Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins draw from a wealth of research to address issues of nationality, national identity and nationalism that lie at the heart of core topics in social psychology and its cognate disciplines. They have produced a powerful and scholarly text that interweaves an abundance of rich empirical data with a broad-reaching and timely theoretical statement. Moreover, the content is not confined to matters of national identity but also extends to treatments of stereotyping, prejudice, intergroup conflict, leadership, collective action, and the self .... For all these reasons, the book should serve essential and compelling reading for a very broad audience′ - S Alexander Haslam, Australian National University `Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins write with elegance and clarity, drawing the reader into their argument, without losing any of its complexity and nuance. This book deserves to make a major impact in studies of nationalism. It ought to become a classic.... I′m quite bowled over - it′s really brilliant′ - David McCrone, Edinburgh University |
From inside the book
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... distinctive national identity which is lying out there just waiting to be discovered. It is this general presupposition which we aim to challenge. Perhaps, though, Alexander is atypical. Perhaps his presupposition that we can find a ...
... distinctive characters is both older and goes wider than the discipline of psychology. David Hume was only one of many to provide a descriptive sketch: 'We have reason to expect greater wit and gaity in a FRENCHMAN than in a SPANIARD ...
... distinctive character type, which is the root of differences between national societies. Such ideas never went entirely unchallenged, yet they were clearly in the ascendancy in the first half of the twentieth century. However, their ...
... distinctive distribution of personality characteristics in the country. To use their own words: '“national character” refers to relatively enduring personality characteristics and patterns that are modal among the adult members of the ...
... distinctive compared to the Greeks will be different to that which renders the Scots distinctive compared to the English (Hopkins, Regan & Abell, 1997). Far from being fixed and insensitive, our stereotypes of groups will be a flexible ...
Contents
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3 Nation and Mobilization | 53 |
4 National Identity and International Relations | 77 |
5 In Quest of National Character | 100 |
6 Lessons in National History | 131 |
7 Representing the National Community | 152 |
8 Changing Categories and Changing Contexts | 181 |
9 Nationalist Psychology and the Psychology of Nationhood | 204 |
References | 223 |
Author Index | 235 |
Subject Index | 239 |