Nationalism and Social Theory
Title | Nationalism and Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard Delanty |
Publisher | SAGE |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2002-04-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1412931835 |
Why has nationalism proved so durable? What are the roots of its appeal? This sharp and accessible book slices through the myths surrounding nationalism and provides an important new perspective on this perennial subject. The book argues that: nationalism is persistent, not merely because of its specific ideological appeal, but because it expresses some of the major conflicts in modernity; nationalism reflects and reinforces four key trends in western social development: state formation, democratization, capitalism and the rationalization of culture; the forms of nationalism can be organized into a comprehensive typology which is outlined in the course of this study; post-nationalism and cosmopolitanism are significant innovations in the debate about nation-states and nationalism; and that the new radical nationalisms have become powerful new movements in the global age.
A Social Theory of the Nation-State
Title | A Social Theory of the Nation-State PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Chernilo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 2008-03-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134150121 |
A Social Theory of the Nation-State construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of its current and definitive decline.
Nationalism and Social Theory
Title | Nationalism and Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard Delanty |
Publisher | SAGE |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2002-05-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780761954514 |
A perennial subject for sociologists, nationalism, the focus of this study, is persistent, not merely because of its specific ideological appeal, but because it expresses some of the major conflicts in Western social development.
Nationalism, Social Theory and Durkheim
Title | Nationalism, Social Theory and Durkheim PDF eBook |
Author | J. Dingley |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2008-01-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230593100 |
Ethno-national and religious identity and violence dominate modern politics, from Northern Ireland to terrorism in Sri Lanka, the former Yugoslavia or Afghanistan and Iraq. This book shows that social theory should be a major tool in helping explain national, religious and identity problems.
Nationalism
Title | Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Spencer |
Publisher | SAGE |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2002-07-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780761947219 |
Spencer and Wollman seek to challenge fixed notions of national identity, ethnicity and culture to more fully explore and understand the contemporary complexities of citizenship and the genuine potential for a cosmopolitan democracy.
Nationalism and Social Communication
Title | Nationalism and Social Communication PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Wolfgang Deutsch |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780758153111 |
Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
Title | Colonialism and Modern Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Gurminder K. Bhambra |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1509541314 |
Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy. Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood address this absence by examining the role of colonialism in the development of modern society and the legacies it has bequeathed. Beginning with a consideration of the role of colonialism and empire in the formation of social theory from Hobbes to Hegel, the authors go on to focus on the work of Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Du Bois. As well as unpicking critical omissions and misrepresentations, the chapters discuss the places where colonialism is acknowledged and discussed – albeit inadequately – by these founding figures; and we come to see what this fresh rereading has to offer and why it matters. This inspiring and insightful book argues for a reconstruction of social theory that should lead to a better understanding of contemporary social thought, its limitations, and its wider possibilities.