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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Stephen Reicher, Nick Hopkins. Secondly , the subjects are separated from the reality which they are required to judge . There is no way in which they can act upon that reality or that their judgments can have any effects upon those who ...
... reality it is not because the speaker has an insufficient grasp on reality , is subject to bias , or whatever . Quite often speakers show an explicit awareness or even choose to stress the discrepancy between current reality and ...
... reality renders an understanding of those links all the more important . Of course , that is the type of reflection we want to encourage but it is not the only reflection that might be provoked by the foregoing material . There are two ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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