2006
DOI: 10.1177/1368431006060460
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Social Theory’s Methodological Nationalism

Abstract: The equation between the concept of society and the nation-state in modernity is known as methodological nationalism in scholarly debates. In agreement with the thesis that methodological nationalism must be rejected and transcended, this article argues that we still lack an understanding of what methodological nationalism actually is and, because of that, we remain unable to answer the substantive problem methodological nationalism poses to social theory: how to understand the history, main features and legac… Show more

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“…Moreover, from a scholarly point of view, focusing on this perspective alone would generate involuntary normative effects, as it would constrain the complexity of EUrope as a social, political and economic space within the ontological grid of the nation-state. This is exactly the conceptual error that Agnew (1994) has labeled 'territorial trap' and that students of nationalism calls 'methodological nationalism' (Chernilo, 2006), as social scientists forget to consider that the nation-state is a historical product and should not be taken for granted as a fixed unit of territorial sovereignty and an exclusive container of society.…”
Section: Meanings Of Europementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, from a scholarly point of view, focusing on this perspective alone would generate involuntary normative effects, as it would constrain the complexity of EUrope as a social, political and economic space within the ontological grid of the nation-state. This is exactly the conceptual error that Agnew (1994) has labeled 'territorial trap' and that students of nationalism calls 'methodological nationalism' (Chernilo, 2006), as social scientists forget to consider that the nation-state is a historical product and should not be taken for granted as a fixed unit of territorial sovereignty and an exclusive container of society.…”
Section: Meanings Of Europementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The concept of transnationalism (Levitt & Glick-Schiller, 2004;Vertovec, 1999) emerged in the late 1980s and grew in the 1990s as a way to counterbalance the problems of both methodological nationalism and globalism (Chernilo, 2006). Transnational studies emphasize the fluctuating nature of social life and the continuous flows of people, objects, and capital across nation-state borders, in settings where the state influences but does not contain such flows (Levitt & Glick-Schiller, 2004).…”
Section: Transnationalism Global Consumer Cultures and Area Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such sites have remained intact, even in a globalised world of global cities, and might be only weakly correlated with the scientific, political or economic networks that constitute transnational spaces, for example, by way of a lingua franca (English), through conferences or reference strategies. Thinking in levels avoids a logical methodological nationalism (Chernilo, 2006), meaning that the various dimensions of curriculum remain in the background and empirical, for example, national, cases are seen as a natural unity without fragmentation, presented appropriately through policy documents and through the voices of policy makers.…”
Section: Theorising About Curriculum and The Issue Of Spacementioning
confidence: 99%