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Nationalism and patriotism

Roundtable session at the Russian Sociological Congress

During the Fourth Russian Sociological Congress a round table on the topic “Nationalism and patriotism” was organized by the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research on October 23rd. Ekaterina Lytkina, a research assistant at the LCSR, provides an overview of that session for the Lab website.

The round table was opened by Eduard Ponarin, the Director of the LCSR, who delivered a report on “Ethnical and political nationalism: institutional factors of Tatar nationalism in Volga-Ural region”. Together with Kirill Zhirkov they explored the relationship between the official status of an ethnic group and the level of ethno-nationalism among its members in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.

Margarita Fabrykant gave a talk on “Types and measurement of the modern nationalism in comparative perspective”. Applying factor analysis to the data that came from the fifth wave of the WVS she classified different types of nationalism. Margarita also got some surprising results, such as the fact that cosmopolitism and multiculturalism were not connected with each other.

Veronica Kostenko reported the results of her project “Archaization or modernization? Age and education effect on social attitude in the Arab world”. Within that project she explored the data from the “Arab barometer” with a special attention to attitudes towards gender equality. According to her analysis the most positive attitudes towards gender equality were held by the people older than 65, and the most negative attitudes were held by the young generation (aged 25 to 34). Religiosity and education effects on gender attitudes also were revealed.

Kirill Zhirkov presented a report on “Anti-Americanism and modernization”. His main idea was that mass disappointment in the Western way of life and negative attitude towards modernization could be explained through the concept of “ressentiment” developed by Liah Greenfeld. People in Third World countries feel the gap between their countries and developed societies and thus blame the most powerful states (such as USA) for having unwanted social change.

The topic of Ekaterina Lytkina’s presentation was “From anomia to alienation: an approach for studying social welfare and deviation”. Ekaterina discussed different approaches to measurement of anomia and alienation. Then she suggested an original way for separating those concepts in empirical studies and tested it using ESS data.

Natalia Orekhovskaya held a closing speech on “Tolerance training for young generation – a factor for social and political stability in Russian society”.

by Ekaterina Lytkina