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List of contents
I: Setting the Context: Basic Concepts, Stereotyping, and Authoritarianism; 1: Introduction; 2: Nationality, Ethnicity, Political Socialization, and Public Policy: Some Cross-National Perspectives; 3: National Characteristics and National Stereotypes: A Seven-Nation Comparative Study; 4: A Critical Analysis of Forty Years of Authoritarianism Research: Did Theory Testing Suffer from Cold War Attitudes?; II: Intellectual Currents: Postmodernity, Historicism, the State, and Critical Theories; 5: Coming to Terms with the Past: An International Comparison; 6: The Threshold of Statehood; 7: Are Intellectuals the Keepers of Political Culture? Some Reflections on Politics, Morality, and Reason; III: National Studies: Germany, the US, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine; 8: Ethnic-Cultural Minorities in Germany: Life Chances, Educational Opportunities, Minority Group Identity, and Political Participation; 9: Conditions for Xenophobia in Eastern Germany (formerly the GDR); 10: The Role of the Media in Political Socialization and Attitude Formation toward Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the US; 11: The Jews in Turkey: A Question of National or International Identity; 12: The Status of National Minorities in Contemporary Poland; 13: Some Determinants of Polish Attitudes toward Other Nations during a Period of Transition; 14: An Avalanche of Minorities: Some Unexpected Consequences of Regime Changes on Hungarian Political Culture; 15: The Impact of Class, Ethnicity, and Nationality on the Identity of Disadvantaged Young Hungarians; 16: Central and Eastern European Political Cultures in Transition: From Communism’s Decline to Nationalism’s Triumph; 17: The Influence of Command Style Administration on Ethnic Conflict in Bulgaria; 18: The Development of a Democratic Political Identity in Contemporary Ukrainian Political Culture; 19: Political Competence of the Younger Generation in Western Europe: Creating a Context for Future National and European Political Socialization Research; IV: Conclusions, References, and Author Profiles; 20: Nationalism, Ethnicity, National Identity, and Multiculturalism: Concluding Observations
About the author
Russell F. Farnen
Summary
Nationalism, national identity, and ethnicity are cultural issues in contemporary Western societies. Problems in the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Poland, Croatia, Ukraine, Hungary, and Bulgaria illustrate both large-scale internal variations in these phenomena and their cross-national relevance for teaching, research, and educational development on such subjects as multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, and socialization.
Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity, now in paperback, reflects the consequences of rapid change as well as the impact of longstanding social values. Contributors from a number of different countries use a variety of methodological approaches (empirical, quantitative, qualitative, historical, and case study, among others) to analyze important issues. These include anti-Semitism, stereotyping, militarism, authoritarianism, postmodernism, moral development, gender, patriarchy, theory of the state, critical educational theory, Europeanization, and democratic public policy options as related to competing choices among monocultural and multicultural policy options.
In addition, contributors examine the situation of minorities in their respective national settings. Chapters cover the impact of mass media, culture, patriotism, and other universal values. This cross-national study is a unique addition to the literature on multiculturalism.
