HABITUS ET AGENCE DANS LE MODELAGE THEORIQUE DES FORMATIONS DES NATIONS EN EUROPE
HABITUS AND ARRANGES IN THE THEORETICAL MODELLING OF THE FORMATIONS OF THE NATIONS IN EUROPE
Author(s): Sergiu MișcoiuSubject(s): History
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: nation; habitus; agency; constructivism; identity
Summary/Abstract: This article aims at presenting the significance of two key-concepts – ‘habitus’ and ‘agency’ – in elaborating a constructivist theoretical model of nation formation in the early modern Western Europe. It is constructed in two parts: while in the first one I present the general constructivist approach and model that I have proposed, in the second part I stress the explanatory role of ‘habitus’ and ‘agency’ in modeling the nation formation process or, in the words of the definition I propose, in the process of fusion between the communities of identity and the political communities, so as the nation became a ‘politically autonomous community of identity’.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Studia Europaea
- Issue Year: 53/2008
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 17-30
- Page Count: 14
- Language: French