13 results on '"Nationalism"'
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2. The Gift of The Nation: Marcel Mauss and the Intersocial Turn of Sociology.
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Callegaro, Francesco
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NATIONALISM ,SOCIALISM ,GIFTS ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
In order to question the modernist common sense of mainstream sociology, epitomised today by the charge of methodological nationalism, this article offers an overall reading of Marcel Mauss's The Nation. Conceived during the Great War and written mainly in 1920, Mauss's work radically re-examined both the nation and nationalism from a regenerated sociological viewpoint centered on the relations between societies. Distinguishing between partial relations of exchange and total relations of encounter, Mauss came to discover the gift as a total social fact, seeing it as the traditional unconscious spring of the federative dynamics that had to be reactivated in Europe to associate its nations in a great 'Inter-nation' and avoid the risk of a new total war. The Nation, by reviving the original ambition of Émile Durkheim's sociology to be a way rethinking and reshaping the concepts and institutions of modernity, helps us explore the contradictions and pathologies involved in the concept and history of the nation, in a situation currently marked by the return of nationalism and the quest for a social Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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3. Chapter 5: State borders,border regions and the construction of European identity.
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O'Dowd, Liam
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IDENTITY (Philosophical concept) ,STATE boundaries ,HUMAN geography ,NATIONALISM ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The article focuses on state borders, border regions and the construction of European identity. In the twentieth century Europe was a factory of state borders as its great multinational empires and many of its multinational states fragmented, often violently. The project of European integration may be seen partly as a response to this fragmentation and as an attempt to develop a more negotiated and consensual approach to border change in its geographical, functional and symbolic forms. The central argument of this article is that the study of what is happening to, and at, state borders is a "sine qua non" for an adequate understanding of the European Union (EU) as an emergent transnational polity. The article briefly outlines reasons why sociology has generally tended to either "normalize" or discount state borders thereby failing to problematize them for analytical purposes. The author further locates the EC-EU in the context of the historically volatile nature of European borders. The third section examines the development of trans-frontier regionalism as one indicator of the way borders are being reconfigured within the EU.
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- 2001
4. Chapter 1: 'Europe' as issues of sociology.
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Therborn, Göoran
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL integration ,SOCIAL influence ,SOCIAL systems ,SOCIOECONOMICS ,NATIONALISM ,INTERNATIONAL economic integration ,NATIONAL socialism ,GENOCIDE - Abstract
The article focuses on the sociology of Europe. Europe has for long been a marginal subject of sociology, at most. Europe does embody some key concepts of sociology, it harbors fascinating, epochal social processes, and it calls out the constructive imagination to test. It has been a parade-ground of early twentieth century nationalism as well as the all-European example of socialist working-class organization, the tragic end of the brief hopes of a proletarian revolution, a short-lived center of cultural modernity, the continental headquarters of Fascism and genocide. Classical and central questions of sociology have become crucial issues for the construction or destruction of Europe, deriving from the European road to and through modernity: the emergence and the erosion of norms, the regulation of markets, the culture of capitalism; the parameters of large-scale social reorganization, the possibilities of social steering, the closure or openness of social systems, forms of system integration and of social integration; bases of collective action, the social effects of economic polarization, the implications of new generational divides; the dynamics of identities, nationalism and post-nationalism, the handling of ethnic encounters, and multiculturality.
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- 1999
5. Effect of Nationalism on Religiosity in 30 European Countries.
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Voicu, Mălina
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NATIONALISM ,RELIGIOUSNESS ,SOCIAL change ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The relations between nationalism and religiosity are complex. Although many previous studies consider religion as a precursor of nationalism, Mitchell (2006) shows that in some contexts the relationship is a reciprocal one. The present approach focuses on the connection between nationalism and Christian religiosity in European countries. People who experience rapid social changes are more likely to reinforce their national identity by searching for stability and a new definition of self and of their own identity. Religion can provide content to the reinforced national identity, especially in the context of religious monopoly resulting in the formation of larger groups that have higher potential for political mobilization and are more likely to control more resources especially when they are supported by the state. The article uses survey data provided by European Values Survey (2000 wave) for the Christian population of 30 European societies. Multilevel regression analysis was used for the analysis. The results indicate a positive effect of nationalist ideology on religiosity in countries with higher level of religious concentration, but no special impact of nationalist ideology on religion was found in post-communist countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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6. The Dialectic between Romanticism and Classicism in Europe.
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Ossewaarde, Marinus
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ROMANTICISM in literature , *CLASSICISM , *LITERARY movements , *NATIONALISM , *SOCIAL movements , *POPULAR culture , *SOCIAL processes , *SOCIAL psychology - Abstract
This article provides an application of Alvin Gouldner's dialectic between Romanticism and Classicism to the constitutional process of European identity formation. Gouldner introduced his dialectical sociology in a critical attempt to destroy compulsive identification with any fixed idea of order. In an attempt to destroy compulsive identification with any Romantic or classical idea of Europe, this article shows how Europe's identity, as it has been represented in the Constitutional Treaty (CT), as well as in sociological works, is being shaped by predominant Romantic and classic thought structures and social movements. The central argument is that the dialectic between Romanticism and Classicism in Europe is most clearly observed in the debates about democracy, human rights and rule of law — the classical values that constitute the EU's entry criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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7. ETNIČNI ODNOSI, NACIONALIZEM, MANJŠINE IN ČLOVEKOVE PRAVICE V JUGOVZHODNI EVROPI IN V EVROPSKIH OKVIRIH.
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Žgar, Mitja
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ETHNIC studies ,ETHNIC relations ,NATIONALISM ,MINORITIES ,HUMAN rights ,RACIAL & ethnic attitudes ,ETHNIC groups ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2006
8. Between social and spatial convergence and divergence: an exploration into the political geography of European contact areas.
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Bufon, Milan
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NATIONALISM ,POLITICAL geography ,PATRIOTISM ,NATION-state ,POLITICAL science ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,HEGEMONY - Abstract
The European continent, the motherland of nationalism, and the part of the world where political borders and different territorial and cultural identities are mostly interrelated, is now facing new challenges regarding how best to represent its numerous interests within one system. With the increase of international integration European countries began to devote greater attention to the development problems of their border areas that had to be helped to undertake certain functions in the international integration process. The fostering of a more balanced regional development also resulted in a strengthening of regional characteristics, which the new model could no longer ignore. Regional characteristics in turn have always been preserved in Europe by persistent historical and cultural elements of ethnic and linguistic variety. Therefore, it is not surprising that the process of European integration based on the new regional development model was accompanied by a parallel process of ethnic or regional awakening of minorities and other local communities. The key question for contemporary European (though of course this is not limited to Europe) political geography is, then, how the process summarised under the twin labels of social convergence and deterritorialisation will effect the persistent maintenance of regional identities and the corresponding divergence of regional spaces. Or, in other words: is the 'unity in diversity' European programme ever practicable and exportable on a world-wide scale or are we to be absorbed by a new global 'melting pot'? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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9. THE BATTLEGROUNDS OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY.
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Kohli, Martin
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NATIONALISM , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL contract , *NATIONAL character , *CONSENSUS (Social sciences) - Abstract
The study of European identity cannot take its clues from national identity, neither in form nor in substance. I begin with an examination of the general sociological concept of identity in order to uncover its resources for a more complex understanding of European identity. I then ask to what extent Europe really needs a European identity, and on what levels an identity may be found: in the received cultural 'idea' of Europe, in the cultural practices of celebration and ritualization, and in the consciousness if its citizens. In the next section, I present some of the basic descriptive evidence on the individual sense of European identity as routinely surveyed by Eurobarometer. In the final part I sketch some of the current battlegrounds of European identity: its relation to national identity, the challenge posed to it by globalization, and the shifts towards new identity mixes or hybrid identities. I conclude that there is indeed a potential for hybridity, that there are carrier groups for it (e.g. border populations or migrants), but that its development depends on the old social question now taken to the new European level - finding a viable social contract. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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10. Nation as a Model of Political Order and the Growth of National Identity in Europe.
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Münkler, Herfried
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NATIONAL character , *NATIONALISM , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *PATRIOTISM , *POLITICAL doctrines , *POLITICAL science , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Since the political upheaval of 1989, a political concept has regained its significance, an idea, it was thought, that belonged to the past: the idea of the nation as the basis of international order and the foundation of political self-determination. The re-emergence of the nation as a model of political order contradicts the vision that post-war European integration would culminate in complete transnational unification of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
11. The Advent of a European Society.
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Giner, Salvador
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SOCIAL history , *GLOBALIZATION , *NATIONALISM , *SOCIOLOGY , *CULTURE ,SOCIAL conditions in Europe - Abstract
The article discusses the nature of European society. Europe's culture, economy, political constitution, unity, diversity, prospects, and destiny are closely scrutinized by various people. Europeans, like all westerners continue to be futuristic. This is the legacy of the powerful belief in progress that characterized one crucial and easily identifiable trait of the culture from the age of the enlightenment until yesterday. Europe may lose much of her identity when confronted with the consequences and ramifications of her own historical dynamics as recast, perfected, or transformed by the peoples who were the direct offshoots of her relentless global expansion. Globalization was a characteristically European creature during its early stages. Despite the hard facts of nationalism and national attachments, the diminution of European specificity and independence as a civilization has certainly been a cause of integration. The loss of European distinctiveness has spurred the development of European nationalism, or Europeanism, as a new form of collective identification. Europeanism has its own public pieties, sacred symbols, and loyalties. Sociology ought to be able to help Europeans to widen their citizenship without losing their profound attachments to their homelands and ethnogeny.
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- 1994
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12. Birth Dearth.
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Meyer, Michael, Theil, Stefan, Pape, Eric, McNicoll, Tracy, Itoi, Kay, Schafer, Sarah, and Matthews, Owen
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POPULATION ,DEMOGRAPHY ,POPULATION policy ,SOCIOLOGY ,POPULATION dynamics ,NATIONALISM ,DEMOGRAPHERS ,INDIGENOUS peoples - Abstract
The article examines how the new world demography will shape the coming century. Across the globe, people are having fewer and fewer children. Fertility rates have dropped by half since 1972, and demographers say they are still falling. The world's population will continue to grow, but after that, it will go sharply into decline. Indeed, depopulation has already begun in a number of countries. The New Demography will change everything about our world, from the absolute size and power of nations to global economic growth to the quality of our lives. This revolutionary transformation will be led not so much by developed nations as by the developing ones. The potential consequences of the population implosion are enormous. Demographic change magnifies all of a country's problems, social as well as economic. One scenario may be an intensification of existing tensions between peoples determined to preserve their beleaguered national identities on the one hand, and immigrant groups on the other seeking to escape overcrowding and lack of opportunity at home. While Europe and much of Asia shrinks, the United States' indigenous population looks likely to stay relatively constant.
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- 2004
13. The Russian Imperial State and the Origins of Ukrainian Theatre.
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Hrycak, Alexandra
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LINGUISTICS ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,CULTURE ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
Cultural projects that promoted the linguistic assimilation of peripheral populations to formerly aristocratic languages (a process that in Western Europe turned "peasants into Frenchmen") facilitated the political incorporation of Western European borderlands. In Eastern Europe, the central state's introduction of such projects to broaden the appeal of high culture has frequently led instead to a proliferation of cultural and linguistic projects opposed to central and local elites alike, and devoted to asserting the national identity of Ukrainians, Ruthenians, Slovaks and other peasant populations. Sociologists of culture who focus on the crucial mediating role of producers and consumers of culture can help understand the problems of patronage that helped undermine state efforts to promote aristocratic culture. This analysis attempts to account for the initial phase of the adoption and reinterpretation of national ideology in 19th century Eastern Europe as it occurred within the domain of public theater. Early nineteenth century officials of the Russian empire sought to consolidate their state's legitimacy by creating a European-style national culture and spreading it through the establishment of public theaters and other elite cultural institutions in Russia's borderlands. Local elites in "Little Russia" at first expressed little sustained interest in supporting these new public theaters. Concerned about lack of public interest in "serious" theater, the region's cultural producers initiated efforts to broaden appreciation for high culture by writing and producing plays that examined problems facing rural Ukrainians. Although initially these rural plays lacked an audience, their ideology lent new legitimacy among Ukrainian peasants and soldiers to their national identity and language, formerly associated with rural life, uncouth manners, lack of sophistication, and backwardness. After the Russian empire's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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