Nationalism and modernity.(Nationalism Reexamined) From: Social Research | Date: March 22, 1996| Author: Greenfeld, Liah | COPYRIGHT 1996 New School for Social Research. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Sociology was developed to study the modern nation by observers at the beginning of the change who did not have any previous experience to fall back on. However, their central theses have continued to be accepted by scholars, leading to the inappropriate belief that industrialization is essential for a modern state and so all nations not matching an industrial model are considered unmodern. Nationalism, not economics, is the defining element of a modern state and, though nationalism often spa...

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