For decades, nationalism research had been dominated by historical approaches that viewed the nation state as the product of economic and political forces channelled by elite actors. Once institutionalized, nationalism was seen as a fait accompli, except in unstable states, where fringe radicals and separatists occasionally disrupted the national equilibrium. This scholarly consensus was challe...

Growth machine theory has typically interpreted successful contemporary conservation efforts as rare victories of elite liberal factions to protect their own use values or, alternatively, as greenwashing for growth. By studying an elite coalition dedicated to land conservation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, I probe whether growth theory can be used to understand conservation as a territorial...

Abstract Systems of higher education are usually divided into elite, mass, and universal, depending on the proportion of young people who attend college. Human experts perceive a system as elite is less than 15% of young people of the 18–21 age group attend college, and as universal if more than 40% of young people of this age group attend college. The corresponding 15% and 40% thresholds are, ...

How may elites experience a symbolic fall from grace? Elite scholarship has typically described how structures contribute to consecrate and reinforce existing power relations. Processes of deconsecration are, however, less well described. Deconsecration as social process is distinct déclassement , cultural or juridical processes exclusion. It the loss very status “elite.” We address question th...

Background and purpose: The functional understanding and examination of competitive anxiety responses as temporal events that unfold as time-to-competition moves closer has emerged as a topical research area within the domains of sport psychology. However, little is known from an inclusive and interaction oriented perspective. Using the multidimensional anxiety theory as a framework, the presen...

Title: Cross-Cultural Psychology. Subject(s): ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; CULTURE; PSYCHOLOGY Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Jan2000, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p129, 19p Author(s): Kagitcibasi, Cigdem; Poortinga, Ype H. Abstract: A selection of current and presumably future issues is addressed in four sections. The first section deals with the pervasive controversy between relativistic and universal...