Locating Ancestry in Notions of Britishness/Germanness: Beyond Waning Myths of Civic and Ethnic Nations

SAGE Open

Andreas Pöllmann¹ 

关键词: ancestry;    national culture;    civic–ethnic;    education;    national membership;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244012466666

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

This article focuses on ancestry as a controversial marker of Britishness/Germanness. Considering developments in nationality law and large-scale survey data for England and Germany, it illustrates that macrocontextual distinctions into civic and ethnic nations tend to overestimate cross-national differences, while underestimating important within-country variations according to people’s educational background. The fact that—in both countries—higher levels of formal education are strongly associated with more ethnically inclusive notions of legitimate national membership underlines the formative potential of formal education in contemporary multicultural societies.

【 授权许可】

CC BY