Homo Nationis
The Psychosocial Infrastructure of the Nation-State Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23249563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreas Pickel (Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 67-89 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Problem of Order in the Global Age (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781403984562_4 |
| OpenAlex | W1994061298 |
| ISBN | 9781403984562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 48 |
The central argument of this paper is that the global expansion of sovereign nation-states has been accompanied by the emergence of a particular type of modern individual, homo nationis. The general significance of this argument lies in the fact that this personality type, which is either taken for granted (untheorized) or ignored, constitutes an integral component of modern social order. That is, in addition to the constitutional and institutional foundations of the state and its political economy, the nation-state has a psychosocial foundation – a “national habitus. ” The concepts of homo nationis and national habitus underscore that modern individuals are historical individuals, i.e. they have personality structures that are unlike those of individuals in other historical epochs, and that they should be explicitly conceptualized as such, rather than as a transhistorical homo oeconomicus or homo sociologicus. Many fundamental social processes, including those discussed under globalization, can be better explained with such a conception. The historical-structural context for homo nationis is the world order of nation-states that has only recently finished formally incorporating all other social formations from tribes to the remnants of empires, as well as the specific state-society to which the individual belongs.
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Social institutions and economic performance
Risk Society
The Formation of national States in Western Europe
Nationalism
The myth of the global corporation
The postnational constellation
Markets from Networks
Contemporary Capitalism
Education and Sociology
Nationalism and national development.
Money, Morals, and Manners
Kings or People
Partisan Politics in the Global Economy
Cultural Economies Past and Present
The Culture of Capitalism.
Market Cultures
Distinction
How Nationalisms Spread - Eastern Europe Adrift the Tides and Cycles of Nationalist Contention
The Dignity of Working Men
Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
State/Culture
Nationalism Reframed
The Sociology of Economic Life
The Logic of Practice
Norbert Elias and Modern Social Theory
The Professions Between State And Market
The myth of a ‘Global’ economy
German capitalism
The First New Nation
A Case for Comparing Apples with Oranges Intemational Differences in Values
Globalization
National Identity and National Boundary Patterns in France and the United States
Staatliche Ordnung und moderne Sozialintegration
Nationalism and Bounded Integration
The Architecture of Markets
Good and bad nationalisms
Social Capital and Politics
On the Nature of Nationalism
The Spirit of Capitalism
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
The Commercial Construction of 'New Nations
Culture in the Cockpit
The Economic Sociology of Conventions
Production Regimes and Work Orientations
World Society and the Nation-State
The Matter of Habit
Kings or PeopleKings or People
States and Social Revolutions
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2020 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |