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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... definition . In specific terms , members of any given group will behave in the terms on which the relevant self - category is defined . Self - categories provide the values , norms and understandings that guide what members do and don't ...
... defined social category . The crucial point to observe here is that this goes beyond the interaction of the independently defined terms ' individual ' and ' situation ' by suggesting the terms themselves are transformed in a social ...
... defined its inhabitants as British . Yet another piece of evidence for the inherently strategic nature of boundary definition comes from the variation which may be found within a single speaker . Once again the clearest evidence was ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
Copyright | |
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