Nations and NationalismThis thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, interprets nationalism in terms of its social roots, which it locates in industrial social organization. Professor Gellner asserts here that a society's affluence and economic growth depend on innovation, occupational mobility, the effectiveness of the mass media, universal literacy, and an all-embracing educational system based on a shared, standard idiom. These factors, taken together, govern the relationship between culture and the state. Political units that do not conform to the principle, "one state, one culture" feel the strain in the form of nationalistic activity. |
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Contents
Culture in Agrarian Society | 8 |
Industrial Society | 19 |
The Transition to an Age of Nationalism | 39 |
What is a Nation? | 53 |
Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society | 63 |
A Typology of Nationalisms | 88 |
The Future of Nationalism | 110 |
Nationalism and Ideology | 123 |
Conclusion | 137 |
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Common terms and phrases
age of nationalism agrarian age agrarian society agro-literate alism become blues bureaucratic central clerisy communication complex conspicuous continue counter-entropic crucial cultural homogeneity Danegeld defined diaspora nationalism difference distinct diverse division of labour doctrine dominant early industrialism economic effective egalitarian Elie Kedourie emergence engendered entropy entropy-resistant Ernest Gellner ethnic groups European eventually fact faith happens high culture human idea idiom important individual industrial society Islam Kant Kedourie kind language least less linguistic literacy literate low cultures Mamluk Marxism Megalomania minority mobility modern society modern world moral Muslim nationalist nationalist imperative nationalist principle nomic norm option peasants perhaps persist pervasive political boundaries political roof political units population potential nationalisms power-holders pre-industrial problem question reason rulers Ruritanian sense shared culture situation social Somalis sometimes speak specialists specialized specific stratum survive sustained territory traditional tribal ture universal urban
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |