SYMBOLS AND THE WORLD-SYSTEM - NATIONAL ANTHEMS AND FLAGS

被引：58

作者：

CERULO, KA

机构：

[1] Department of Sociology, Lucy Stone Hall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 08903-5072, New Jersey

来源：

SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM | 1993年 / 8卷 / 02期

关键词：

NATIONAL SYMBOLS; WORLD SYSTEMS; MODERNIZATION; SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION;

D O I：

10.1007/BF01115492

中图分类号：

C91 [社会学];

学科分类号：

030301 ; 1204 ;

摘要：

When one examines current national anthems and flags, one finds a great deal of variety. What explains this variation? Possible factors include a nation's world-system position and its degree of modernization. Specifically, I analyze the ways in which world-system position and modernization affect the design or configuration-the syntactic structure-of the symbols national leaders adopt to convey their nation's identity. Findings reveal a link between a nation's world-system position and the structure of its symbols. Leaders of core nations adopt more basic anthems and flags than their semiperiphery and periphery counterparts. However, modernization has no such influence.

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页数：29