National identity and the idea of European unity

Smith, Anthony D.

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“…Generally, national identity applies to citizens of a nation-state. According to Smith (1992), national identity is multidimensional and involves historical territory, common memories and myths of origin, mass, standardized public culture, common economy and territorial mobility, common legal rights and duties. The psychological dimension of national identity arises from the consciousness of forming a group based on the closeness that is felt uniting those who belong to the nation (Guibernau, 2004).…”

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The Relationship between National Identity, Subjective Well-Being and Meaning in Life

Grozdanovska¹

2016

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Studies have shown a strong relationship between national identity and some of the constructs of positive psychology. So far, these topics have rarely been researched in the Macedonian context. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between national identity, subjective well-being and meaning in life. Thus, 204 undergraduate students participated in the study, 146 female and 58 male students at the age of 18 to 23 years. The data was acquired with the following four scales: national identity was measured with The National Identity Scale (NIS); the meaning in life was measured with the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MIQ); the cognitive aspect of subjective well-being was measured with the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS); and the affective aspect was measured with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). It has been hypothesized that the students with higher national identity would have higher satisfaction with life, more positive affects and higher meaning in life; contrary to the students with lower national identity who would have lower satisfaction with life, more negative affects and lower meaning in life. The relationships between each dimension were estimated with the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, and the results partially confirmed the predictions. Positive significant correlation was found between national identity, satisfaction with life and the presence of meaning in life. No significant relationship was found between national identity and the affective (positive and negative) aspects of subjective well-being. These findings are important because they provide a new insight into the relationship between the construct of national identity and the constructs of positive psychology, meaning in life and the aspects of subjective well-being.

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The Relationship between National Identity, Subjective Well-Being and Meaning in Life

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2016

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“…Sin embargo, Simon (2011) argumenta que las relaciones entre identidades de diferentes niveles nacionales, incluyendo la sub-nacional, todavía no se han estudiado lo suficiente hasta ahora. Smith (1992) argumenta que una identidad Europea se puede concebir de una manera u otra dependiendo de a qué nación Europea corresponda. Y estas diferencias, dice el autor, están influenciadas por varios aspectos, incluyendo el currículo escolar y el debate público.…”

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2017

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“…One entry point […] is the potential federating role played by a shared political culture facilitating the emergence of common identity" (Bottici and Challand 2013:31) Following such faux logic of some continental, secondary national identity in the making, the European Identity formation would always be at a loss. In fact, the discussion would never quite venture past the contention that when challenged into any kind of a zero-sum game vis-à-vis national identities the European Identity would not stand a chance (Smith 1992). Crucially, this is not the path taken by the cosmopolitan camp -at least not by those critical of methodological nationalismwhat they envisage as cosmopolitan alternative to nationalism is a creature of the second modernity, and thus not playing the same ball-game as the first-modernity derived notions of nations and nationalism.…”

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Cosmopolitanism in the Face of Populism – Contemporary Challenges on the Path of European Identity Formation

Cichocki

2017

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Abstract:The paper examines the continuing viability of the critique of methodological nationalism in the context of recent resurgence of nationalist sentiments across western liberal democracies. Using the distinction between first and second modernity, it shows how cosmopolitan social theorising can actually be seen as predictive of some of the effects that nationalist populism has enjoyed in the context of the post-2008 series of crises. The discussion is mostly focused on the challenge the current political dynamics poses to the weak forms of social integration underpinning the project of European supra-national unification.Keywords: cosmopolitanism; nationalism; modernity; Ulrich Beck; Jonathan Heidt.Juxtaposition of cosmopolitanism with nationalism has recently been moved from the realm over theoretical consideration to the forefront of political challenges faced by western liberal democracies in the post-financial crisis era. For quite a while, most observers were focused on the difficulties involved in forging a unity of purpose among the disparate societies participating in the project in European integration and, yet, instead of becoming have a closer falling into ever more acrimonious disunion under conditions of lender-imposed economic austerity. The never-ending recriminations over possible "exists", and the actual reality of the vote for Brexit, brought back to the fore open discourse of national interests and resentments of the European Union member states. Not only was the openly nationalist talk of us against them back in a way not seen before, but also it happened to be underpinned by the political dynamic of the resurgent nationalist political parties all over the continent. In fact, this time round not even the usually robust institutions of German political mainstream succeeded in facing off the rising Alternative fur Deutschland. However, most shocking of all -both due to the largely unexpected nature of the event and the still unpredictable magnitude -a nativist, nationalist and unilateralist surge brought down the floodgates of Washington. Throughout the protracted 2016 presidential campaign, the problem of America-first populism was seen as a major challenge that the incoming administration would be forced to somehow deal with, but few in any serious pundits or analysts considered the possibility that this populism would actually be

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National identity and the idea of European unity

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The Relationship between National Identity, Subjective Well-Being and Meaning in Life

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