NATIONALISM VERSUS CIVIC OPTION IN MONTENEGRO
NATIONALISM VERSUS CIVIC OPTION IN MONTENEGRO

Author(s): Miloš Bešić
Subject(s): Civil Society, Governance, Sociology, Nationalism Studies, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: nationalism; civic option; social conscience; development; tota­lity; ideology; collectivism; individualization; structural compati­bility; functional complementarity; legitimation principle
Summary/Abstract: This paper offers a sociological analysis of the relations between the civil and the national option in Montenegro. The analysis is based on the methodolo­gical principle of totality and its presentation has firstly a structural, then a historic and finally a functional character. The objective of this paper is to explain the expansion of nationalism and the marginalization of the civic idea after the fall of real-socialism, as well as the creation of the theoretical-empiric model of analysis of the actual social relations and forces operating towards the preserva­ tion or regression of both the national and the civic option in Montenegro. The presentation of the relations between the two alternative models of social integ­ration has also a comparative-historic character, because it indicates the differen­ces and similarities of the status of the national and the civic idea in Montenegro in relation to the ex SFRY environment. Finally, the paper values and supports the civic idea but, in the analytical sense, everything has been done to prevent the distortion of the sociological analysis of the national option.

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