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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... stereotypes of national groups for over 60 years . However , they rapidly note that interest has moved from the content of these stereotypes to the study of cognitive biases in stereotypes and further to the issue of how stereotypes ...
... stereotypes are argumentative devices for mobilizing specific types of social action and thereby for realizing specific forms of social reality . They are as multiple as are political projects and as variable as is political strategy ...
... stereotypes are offered with the intention of obtaining maximum ingroup consensus , but with the result that there is dissensus about the ' true ' stereotype and hence where that consensus should come to rest . It therefore becomes ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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