ISSN:
1354-5078
Language:
English
Additional Material:
Lit. S. 192-193
Titel der Quelle:
Nations and nationalism
Publ. der Quelle:
Oxford [u.a.] : Blackwell, 1995
Angaben zur Quelle:
9(2003), 2, Seite 173-193
Angaben zur Quelle:
volume:9
Angaben zur Quelle:
year:2003
Angaben zur Quelle:
number:2
Angaben zur Quelle:
pages:173-193
DDC:
303
Keywords:
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Nationalismus
;
Geschichte
;
Theoriebildung
;
Schweiz Deutschland
;
Frankreich
;
Nationale Identität
;
Nationalismus
;
Geschichte
;
Theoriebildung
;
Schweiz
;
Deutschland
;
Frankreich
Abstract:
The author argues that the classical distinction between civic and ethnic forms of national identity has proved too schematic to come to terms with the dynamic nature of social and political processes. This has caused difficulties particularly for those historians and social scientists studying particular national movements rather than concentrating on a handful of thinkers and intellectuals or taking a broadly comparative approach. As an alternative to the classical model, the author proposes to distinguish between, on the one hand, the mechanisms which social actors use as they reconstruct the boundaries of national identity at a particular point in time; and on the other, the symbolic resources upon which they draw when they reconstruct these boundaries. (Nations and Nationalism, ECMI)
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