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„Někerej Maďar taky za to nemůže, že je Maďar”: o sociologickém popisu národní identifikace

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Kilias J.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

2005

vol. 41

issue 4

675-692

This article discusses the topic of national identification. The author's aim is to define the appropriate conceptual framework for describing nationality, while taking into account the pluralistic character of the nation and the related contextual and multi-levelled nature of national identification. In the author's view, the concept of 'identification' more accurately applies to individual nationality than the category of identity does, owing to the latter's undesirable subjectivism, methodological individualism, and its occasional references to an over-intellectualised concept of the individual. Scientists who use the second of these two terms tend, moreover, to conflate descriptions of individual and collective phenomena. In an effort to substantiate and elaborate his arguments the author draws on the 'Good Soldier Svejk' by Jaroslav Hasek and presents an analysis of the national identification of the novel's multi-national protagonists. He demonstrates that national identification is multi-levelled and variable, depending on particular situations and institutional frameworks. The author's description shows that the best method of analysing individual nationality may be by examining the individual's set of social roles and institutions rather than describing individual identifications.

On Some Problems with the Notion of Legitimacy of the Political Power: Towards a Negative Concept of Legitimacy

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Kilias J.

Studia Socjologiczne

2005

issue 1(178)

43-66

The paper deals with the concept of 'egitimacy' of the political power. The author suggests that Max Weber cannot be considered a founder of the sociological discourse of legitimacy, as he only made use of a common category of legal studies. In fact, he rather tried to define distinct types of political authority then asked whether it is legitimate or not. The concept and the problem of legitimacy as conformity between values and political institutions is a descendant of a long philosophical debate on just government. Nevertheless, as a concept of the political sociology the term is not operational, as it refers to phenomena that belong to two incomparable domains: ambiguous and often indistinct values and actual political institutions. As a result, any solution of the problem of legitimacy is ambiguous and inherently political one. In fact, the question of legitimacy can only be asked when there is a political alternative, and in many cases it simply serves as an instrument to undermine the existent regime. In fact, the concept seems so popular exactly because it is an instrument that allows the scholar to manifest her own moral and political convictions.

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„Někerej Maďar taky za to nemůže, že je Maďar”: o sociologickém popisu národní identifikace

On Some Problems with the Notion of Legitimacy of the Political Power: Towards a Negative Concept of Legitimacy