Social Research articles from March 1996

Social Research archives from March 1996

David M. Gordon (1944-1996).
March 22, 1996... David Gordon, a leading economist of the left, died March 16, 1996, at the age of fifty-one. He succumbed to congestive heart failure while awaiting a heart transplant at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. At the time of his death he was...

Nationalism and modernity.(Nationalism Reexamined)
March 22, 1996... Sosiology iS a modern discipline. It was called into being by the emergence of a new type of social reality, heralded by the French Revolution and accompanied (some would say produced) by the Industrial one (Berger, Berger, and Kellner, 1973;...

The reawakening of European nationalisms.(Nationalism Reexamined)
March 22, 1996... The end of the twentieth century is marked by the return of the nation and nationalisms. With force and often violence in the East and South, or softly in the West, it is the major ingredient of the post Cold War period. For the fall of communism...

Nationalism, postsocialism, and space in Eastern Europe.(Nationalism Reexamined)
March 22, 1996... THROUGHOUT the first half of this decade, the mind-numbing repetition of horror stories from the wars of Yugoslav succession has kept the problem of nationalism in the former socialist [bloc.sup.1] front and center in the public imagination....

How nationalisms spread: Eastern Europe adrift the tides and cycles of nationalist contention.(Nationalism Reexamined)
March 22, 1996... "One word dominated our conversation -struggle... Struggle, struggle, struggle." Two Soviet journalists attempting to interview activists of the Latvian Popular Front, as reported in Pravda, March 1, 1989. "We are living in an extremely...

Ethnarchy and ethno-anarchism.(Nationalism Reexamined)
March 22, 1996... All human societies are, from time to time, rendered open to interrogation by political crises or changes in moral outlook. The questions, "Why should precisely these people live together, between precisely these actual boundaries," or "Whatever...

Beyond the nation state. (Hungary)(Nationalism Reexamined)
March 22, 1996... The Dispute The Hungarian question has not been thought through yet. We do not see clearly what needs to be done in order to get neighboring states to pursue an acceptable minorities policy. Nor is there an agreement as to what should be...

The changing facets of Hungarian nationalism.(Nationalism Reexamined)
March 22, 1996... Historical Perseverance of National Sentiment The early historical development of the Hungarian people unfortunately cannot be documented accurately: evidence is controversial. Linguistic research has suggested that Hungarian ethnicity can be...