Original scientific paper

System of Power, Social Structure and National Question

Vjeran Katunarić ; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

Abstract

The author considers concepts of national and ethnic as phenomenon of social power and he concludes that multiple nationalism in Yugoslav society was result of the merger of polycentric political system with subdued nationalism of social elites. Using empirical data, the author makes research of: the existence of »ethnic stratification« (which has not been discovered); behaviour of national and ethnic groups (there are no deep roots of nationalism in the structure, behaviour and intercultural perceptions of lower social strata); expression of social distance (the attractiveness of category of Yugoslavs was found out using adapted Bogardus scale, what means that there are no signs of deeper nationalistic confrontation). The author actualizes the difference between ethnicity and nationality; ethnicity is an erotic category, but nationality is a thanatotic category.

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Hrčak ID:

155755

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155755

Publication date:

31.12.1986.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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