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Nationalism and social theory : modernity and the recalcitrance of the nation / Gerard Delanty and Patrick O'Mahony.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New horizons in sociologyPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 207 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781412931830
  • 1412931835
  • 9781446217474
  • 1446217477
  • 1281794708
  • 9781281794703
  • 9786611794705
  • 6611794700
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nationalism and social theory.DDC classification:
  • 306.2 21
LOC classification:
  • JC311 .D394 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 89.22
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Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Modernity, nationalism and social theory: a general outline; Chapter 2 -- Modernity and nationalism: transformation and integration; Chapter 3 -- Nationalism and structure; Chapter 4 -- Nationalism and culture; Chapter 5 -- Nationalism, agency and social change; Chapter 6 -- Towards a typology of forms of nationalism; Chapter 7 -- The new radical nationalisms: globalization, xenophobia and cultural violence; Chapter 8 -- Debating the limits of nationalism: possibilities for postnationalism; References; Index.
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Summary: 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 i.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200).

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Modernity, nationalism and social theory: a general outline; Chapter 2 -- Modernity and nationalism: transformation and integration; Chapter 3 -- Nationalism and structure; Chapter 4 -- Nationalism and culture; Chapter 5 -- Nationalism, agency and social change; Chapter 6 -- Towards a typology of forms of nationalism; Chapter 7 -- The new radical nationalisms: globalization, xenophobia and cultural violence; Chapter 8 -- Debating the limits of nationalism: possibilities for postnationalism; References; Index.

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 i.

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