Националистични движения в развитите общества
Nationalist Movements in Advanced Societies

Summary/Abstract: The upsurge of nationalism and nationalist movements in the present-day world makes the correspondent topics timely and crucial. The paper is structured in three parts. The first encompasses a broad and deep overview of the social thought on nationalism and nationalist movements. Several perspectives are presented and the shortcomings or heuristic potential for sociological research are shown. The second part of the paper is beginning with an analysis of the contemporary theoretical concepts of nationalist phenomena and the emerging approaches, applied by the new generation of scholars. A shift in the orientation in dealing with nationalism is identified and its major features explicated. The author studies the social and scientific premises of that change. He points to the intellectual and cultural climate that fostered the new viewpoints — the developments in social life and on political stage, the change of values worldwide and the evolution of nationalist ideology. He stresses the interesting social science „transvaluation” of national movements. In the third part the author's view on nationalism is presented. A model of the relations between the state, the nation(s), the nationalist discourse and movements, is put forward. The most important factors, influencing those relations and especially — the emergence and upsurge of modern nationalist movements are examined. The author's concepts are backed by cases from the recent situation in Eastern Europe and USSR(CES). The profound overview of the history of the problem, the various schools of thought and basic ideas, presented in the two previous parts of the paper, put together with the author's theoretical concepts, culminate at the end of the paper in several methodological propositions and four approaches (lines of research).

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