Durkheim and National Identity in Ireland [electronic resource] : Applying the Sociology of Knowledge and Religion /
Dingley, J.author.
This book examines the development of opposed Nationalist and Unionists identities as products of different economies, symbolically represented in religious differences, that impelled conflicting cultures and ideals of best interest that were fundamentally incompatible within a single identity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Durkheim as a French Nationalist; Core Elements of Durkheim's Society; Science, Enlightenment, Progress, and Modernity; 2 Durkheim's Sociology of Knowledge; The Social Origins of Knowledge; Knowledge: Mechanical and Organic Societies; Mechanical Solidarity; Organic Solidarity; 3 Nations and Nationalism; The Idea of Nationalism; The State; The Nation as an Idea; Religion; The Social Construction of Nations; The Nation as Ethnic; 4 Ireland, the Revisionist Debate; 5 Science and the Arts in Ireland; The Romantics in Ireland
Literary Revivals, Gaelic and Anglo6 Ireland and Nationalism; After the Union, in an Age of Nationalism; Modern Irish Nationalism; Conclusion Knowledge, Truth, and the Problem of Useless Knowledge; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the development of opposed Nationalist and Unionists identities as products of different economies, symbolically represented in religious differences, that impelled conflicting cultures and ideals of best interest that were fundamentally incompatible within a single identity.
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Ethnology.
Religion and sociology.
Cultural studies.
Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology of Religion.
Cultural Studies.
Sociology, general.