Self and NationSAGE, 2000 M12 18 - 256 pages A `RARE BOOK′ FROM LOCAL AUTHORS `Here is a rare book, a truly helpful piece of work on the psychology of nationalism. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins, of St Andrews and Dundee Universities, focus much of their study of recent Scottish experience, drawing on inter-views with political activists. The cast light on why our `Unionists′ and nationalists feel so sure their side represents our national identity and the other lot doesn′t. For once it is a compliment to say a book raises more questions than it answers. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins open up large questions closer inspection′ - Glasgow Herald `In this impressive book Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins draw from a wealth of research to address issues of nationality, national identity and nationalism that lie at the heart of core topics in social psychology and its cognate disciplines. They have produced a powerful and scholarly text that interweaves an abundance of rich empirical data with a broad-reaching and timely theoretical statement. Moreover, the content is not confined to matters of national identity but also extends to treatments of stereotyping, prejudice, intergroup conflict, leadership, collective action, and the self .... For all these reasons, the book should serve essential and compelling reading for a very broad audience′ - S Alexander Haslam, Australian National University `Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins write with elegance and clarity, drawing the reader into their argument, without losing any of its complexity and nuance. This book deserves to make a major impact in studies of nationalism. It ought to become a classic.... I′m quite bowled over - it′s really brilliant′ - David McCrone, Edinburgh University |
From inside the book
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... specific fields of social relations and in being used their meanings are ever shifting. However, equally, the sense-making process is facilitated by the existence of symbolic resources and the creation of the new meanings is affected by ...
... specific, we will suggest that identity constitutes the mediation between these two orders. Hence we will address the reciprocal relationship between construction, identity and action. In developing our position we will draw heavily ...
... specific national differences to an analysis of general group processes. Hence, even if concerns about national phenomena and the ways in which they were analysed have been of fundamental importance in the rise of stereotyping research ...
... specific questions guiding his work. Tajfel's work was undertaken amidst the social turmoil of the late 1960s and the 1970s. Even within psychology, it became clear that one could no longer take the status quo as a given and therefore ...
... specific category that one is dealing with. It is a function of cultural and not of psychological factors. It may well be true that in many cases group culture prioritizes such things as dominance, affluence and aggression such that ...
Contents
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3 Nation and Mobilization | 53 |
4 National Identity and International Relations | 77 |
5 In Quest of National Character | 100 |
6 Lessons in National History | 131 |
7 Representing the National Community | 152 |
8 Changing Categories and Changing Contexts | 181 |
9 Nationalist Psychology and the Psychology of Nationhood | 204 |
References | 223 |
Author Index | 235 |
Subject Index | 239 |