Homage to Ruritania

Nationalism, Identity, and Diversity

Bibliographic Data

ID6252005
AuthorsMartin Tyrrell (corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume19
Issue4
Pages511-522
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08913810801892895
OpenAlexW1995867974
LanguageEN
References cited14

National identities have tended to be established by elites who universalize deep cultural conformity to key cultural artefacts such as language and religion. But this approach can provoke intergroup conflict when the official national identity clashes with other social identifications (e.g., religious, ethnic, or regional ones). Research based on the Social Identity Theory of Henri Tajfel and John Turner indicates that collective identities can be easily induced, through “minimal” cues of group membership, suggesting a strong and innate need to identify with larger groups and to share in and contribute to their achievements. Instead of insisting on deep conformity, therefore, national identification might be achieved through the use of simple cultural cues, banal national symbolism, and mass political participation

Aesthetics · Collective identity · Conformity · Diversity (politics · Ethnic group · Identification (biology · Identity (music · National identity · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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