Self and NationSAGE Publications, 2001 M05 1 - 256 pages Self and Nation is a lively and accessible exploration of the issues related to nationhood, nationalism and national identity. The authors challenge common assumptions of what 'national identity' means by addressing key concepts of identity, national character, national history and nationalist psychology. How do constructions of national identity affect the way people act, are mobilized, transform societies, create nations and reshape nations where they already exist? This book shows how the central notion of national identity is used by politicians and activists in support of attempts to create different types of nations. Self and Nation will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in social psychology, politics, sociology and social anthropology. |
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... character both within and beyond academia is well illustrated by Hamilton Fyfe's popular volume , The Illusion of National Character , which was first published in 1940 as part of the ' Thinker's Library ' . In the book , described on ...
... character ( Benedict , 1946a , b ) . This pattern of explicit repudiation and implicit reproduction is equally applicable to the idea that all members of a nation reflect a single character type . Inkeles and Levinson ( 1954 ) condemn ...
... character which caused concern for the future : ' a capacity for excess ' and ' a tendency to over - estimate their own strengths and capabilities ' ( the Independent on Sunday , 15 July 1990 ) . The clear , if unstated , message was ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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