Self and NationSAGE, 18.12.2000 г. - 256 страници A `RARE BOOK′ FROM LOCAL AUTHORS `Here is a rare book, a truly helpful piece of work on the psychology of nationalism. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins, of St Andrews and Dundee Universities, focus much of their study of recent Scottish experience, drawing on inter-views with political activists. The cast light on why our `Unionists′ and nationalists feel so sure their side represents our national identity and the other lot doesn′t. For once it is a compliment to say a book raises more questions than it answers. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins open up large questions closer inspection′ - Glasgow Herald `In this impressive book Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins draw from a wealth of research to address issues of nationality, national identity and nationalism that lie at the heart of core topics in social psychology and its cognate disciplines. They have produced a powerful and scholarly text that interweaves an abundance of rich empirical data with a broad-reaching and timely theoretical statement. Moreover, the content is not confined to matters of national identity but also extends to treatments of stereotyping, prejudice, intergroup conflict, leadership, collective action, and the self .... For all these reasons, the book should serve essential and compelling reading for a very broad audience′ - S Alexander Haslam, Australian National University `Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins write with elegance and clarity, drawing the reader into their argument, without losing any of its complexity and nuance. This book deserves to make a major impact in studies of nationalism. It ought to become a classic.... I′m quite bowled over - it′s really brilliant′ - David McCrone, Edinburgh University |
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... traditions in social psychology in order to explain and position our own approach. It then continued with a further three hundred pages in which we used nationhood as an exemplary case through which to validate this approach. However ...
... tradition (Tajfel, 1978, 1982; Tajfel & Turner, 1986). Part of the appeal of the theory is that it seeks to explain the behaviour of large-scale collectivities and not just the small groups of traditional laboratory research. So, when ...
... traditional parochial loyalties. The second set of consequences had to do with the relationship between centre and periphery. Essentially, those elites on the periphery needed to mobilize the population in their locality in order to ...
... tradition, based in Montesquieu's notion of the esprit général. According to Montesquieu, the national whole has a threefold nature: it is historical, it is a layering of diverse causalities, and it provides the conditions for its own ...
... tradition, but they depend upon a more positive interpretation than that employed so far. Just as ethnicity can be used as a theory of nation formation or else an empirical claim about national consciousness, so the same can be said of ...
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28 | |
3 Nation and Mobilization | 53 |
4 National Identity and International Relations
| 77 |
5 In Quest of National Character | 100 |
6 Lessons in National History | 131 |
7 Representing the National Community | 152 |
8 Changing Categories and
Changing Contexts | 181 |
9 Nationalist Psychology and the
Psychology of Nationhood | 204 |
References
| 223 |
Author Index
| 235 |
Subject Index
| 239 |