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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... ingroup and one is a member of the outgroup . The characteristic finding is that people will not only favour the ingroup over the outgroup , but that they will show a tendency towards sacrificing absolute levels of ingroup award in ...
... ingroup identification and intergroup tension . Indeed , in Chapter Two we observed that there is a danger that social identity theory may be read so as to imply that ingroup identification inevitably leads , via social comparison , to ...
... ingroup bias : an example of the ways in which positive characterizations of the ingroup stereotype are maintained in the face of negative information ( Hewstone , 1989 ; Hunter , Stringer & Watson , 1991 ) . However , such an account ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
Copyright | |
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