Journal article

Authors list: Quandt, Markus; Schmidt, Peter

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 101-111

Journal: International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Volume number: 65

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 0020-7152

eISSN: 1745-2554

Open access status: Hybrid

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152241232577

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Abstract: 
This editors' introduction into the themed issue of IJCS dedicated to the analysis of comparative survey work on national identity and globalization presents a very brief overview of core hypotheses from the five articles collected in the issue. The articles offer a variety of new, rather differentiated insights into how individual-level national identity attitudes and sibling concepts like national pride, patriotism, and nationalist chauvinism are related to societal-level variables that tend to vary with exposure to aspects of globalization, such as migrant influx and economic competition. Aside from the focus on those new contributions, the introduction also offers a few observations on the challenges that the wider national identity research field still faces. Given that the field is dealing with several overlapping attitude concepts, this centrally concerns a partial lack of conceptual clarity, which sometimes translates into ambiguous operationalizations and incomplete or imprecise explication of theoretical mechanisms. We conclude that the contributions of the themed issue, with their careful attention to particular aspects of measures and multi-level processes, may serve as another stepping stone for overcoming at least some of those challenges in the future.

Harvard Citation style: Quandt, M. and Schmidt, P. (2024) Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on "National identity, nationalism, patriotism, and globalization", International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 65(2), pp. 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152241232577

APA Citation style: Quandt, M., & Schmidt, P. (2024). Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on "National identity, nationalism, patriotism, and globalization". International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 65(2), 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152241232577