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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... context violates the meta - theoretical concerns which led to the development of social identity theory . It uses the general to sideline the specific rather than looking at how psychological processes manifest themselves in context and ...
... context frame the operation and consequences of social identity processes but also how do social identity processes help explain how and when people act to challenge the status quo and to reorganize the contexts in which they live ? As ...
... context and identity is frozen at one moment in time whereby context is predetermined and category judgment is an outcome . The study exists in space but not across time . Just as the abstraction of experiments from the synchronic ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
Copyright | |
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