RESUMENLas teorías sobre nacionalismo e identidades colectivas, especialmente la escuela neoinstitucionalista, prevén la emergencia y consolidación de las identidades regionales como consecuencia de la federalización de los estados. Es más probable que este fenómeno ocurra cuando las condiciones políticas, culturales y/o económicas promueven un cierto sentimiento de diferenciación. El caso valenciano se desvía de esta presunción. En lugar de reforzarse la identidad periférica (regional o nacional), se consolida una identidad múltiple en la que se combinan los referentes colectivos valencianos y españoles. Este trabajo examina las bases sociales de esta identidad dual y desarrolla un modelo explicativo de este fenómeno que merece una atención mayor como resultado del proceso de descentralización de los estados.88/99 pp. 155-183 1 Los autores desean agradecer los valiosos comentarios de Juan Linz (Yale University), Eva Ponte (UC Berkeley), José Ramón Montero (Fundación March), Glenn Yamagata (Yale University), Eduardo López-Aranguren (Universidad Carlos III), Enric Martínez (Universidad Pompeu Fabra), y a los participantes en el grupo de «identidades colectivas» reunido en A Coruña en el IV Congreso de Sociología. Nuestro agradecimiento también al Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas por permitirnos utilizar los datos del Estudio 2228, realizado por el CIS entre noviembre y diciembre de 1996. El primer autor desea agradecer la generosidad económica de la Fundación Bofill al sufragar un estudio más amplio del que esta «nota de investigación» es una parte.

This article explores how the issue of anabolic steroids has been covered by the Spanish press in a period when doping/drug abuse in sport has attracted considerable attention in the media. We analysed news and opinion pieces about this topic in the Spanish written press over a period of five years (2007–2011) on the basis of the agenda-setting theory. A total of 581 items linked to the consumption of steroids were identified, mainly in the sports sections of a statewide newspaper and in the society and crime sections of Valencian and Catalan regional newspapers. In the vast majority of cases, the source and producer of the news is the police or the judicial system and the primary focus is on penal aspects, while a health and social integration perspective is neglected. Press releases from the police reveal the spread of the doping phenomenon, among both professional and amateur athletes, and also among security and emergency bodies.

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Political activity of contemporary western societies has been structured based on a definition of territorial units of action, which we call states. This western political structure has been legitimised by a link between each state to a collective owner of sovereignty, which we call a nation. The life of this society revolves around areas linked to different fields of community life, such as production, consumption, distribution of work, etc., including the discursive elements of these practices. Social practices take place within the complex interaction between all these fields of relations, which we call social structure. Each of these collective forms (states, nations and social structure) outline several geographic and social areas, to facilitate or hinder the construction of certain collective identities and, therefore, facilitate or hinder the production of certain collective actions. In the first part, this article opens a discussion on the relationship between the concepts of state, nation, and social structure. Later, the article endeavours to empirically apply the theoretical discussion to the Valencian case, to reveal the mechanisms underlying the construction of its collective identity.