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The critique of "methodological nationalism" constitutes an important advance in the attempt to elaborate a theory of world society adequate to our socio-historical reality. However, I argue that this is not enough if "theoretical nationalism", which consists in assuming that globality is formed in the interaction or interplay between regions and / or states, is not disputed at all. This assumption is in opposition to the idea of "one" world society as postulates the existence of a plurality of regional and national societies. Beyond the fact that this conception may be acceptable within the framework of the epistemological and methodological openness enabled by the "World Paradigm", we point out a set of analytical dilemmas that arise from it. My thesis is that it is necessary to overcome this regionalist worldview to advance not only in a more adequate theory of world society, but also to a better understanding of the way in which inter-regional inequalities are produced and reproduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Globalization has evidenced the necessity to question the «methodological nationalism» as fundamental assumption of the first modernity. This question breaks the assumption that the contours of the society coincide with those of the nation-state, and it supposes an epistemological challenge for the Sociology that adopted an outline of classification of the social space that could be denominated, from its birth, state-society isomorphism. In this paper we carry out some considerations on the epistemological and methodological challenges that the international migrations suppose for the Sociology and the main practices of social empirical research that generally drag inertias and epistemological assumptions anchored in the features of the societies of the first modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Society is converted into a regulatory principle of social conduct when the processes of secularization and rationalization separate the social phenomenon from their absolute principles. On the other hand, social actors persue their own interests instead of obeying collective norms and rules. This seems to make the abandonment of the idea of society inevitable, because the control of social and political institutions over social proceses is diminishing rapidly. Two important transformations participate in the explanation of this phenomenon: first capitalism with its characteristic separation of the economic system from the other elements of social organization. Secondly, the simultaneous presence of intrumental rationality and the progressive development of nationalisms. Today we live a double and contradictory situation: on the one hand we are immersed in world of technological, administrative and economic rationalization; on the other hand we define ourselves as non-social actors. The proposed job of sociology in the face of this reality is to look for a new relative combination and integration of instrumental rationality with cultural identity in a process of subjectivization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the sins that anthropology has perpetrated throughout the last century, the values that paradoxically have been constructed from such sins, and contemporary virtues of its approach, particularly those related to the challenges of "methodological nationalism" identified by sociology. An anthropological study by Stanley Tambiah on collective violence in South Asia exemplifies the argument, which concludes with brief reflections on Brazilian social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A critical essay on the concept of "national identity" in recent literature divided into two parts: 1) debates on "cultural identity," "audiovisual space," "media imperialism" and the television audience and 2) a review of sociological arguments on the creation of the collective identity. After a discussion focusing on ideas from the EC and UNESCO and an assessment of the conceptual advantages and disadvantages of different theories on nationalism, the article concludes with a call for explicit theorization based on an "actionist" approach emphasizing the roles of time and space and the critical use of the concepts of national "identity" and "culture. " [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents abstracts and keywords in Spanish for articles published in the issue. The articles include "La investigación cualitativa aplicada al estudio del nacionalismo: el discurso neoespañolista" by Helena Béjar, "Un análisis de contenido dual. Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de Internet como fuente" by Myriam Redondo, and "Política, teoría e historia: el William Morris de E. P. Thompson desde la sociología de los intelectuales" by Alejandro Estrella.