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  • Blind alleys in ethnic essentialist explanations of the downfall of the former Yugoslavia
    Flere, Sergej
    In this paper certain attractive explanations, present in sociological and other scholarship, on the dismemberment of Yugoslavia are considered, by reviewing them in light of certain thus far ... unpublished survey and census data on the former Yugoslavia, immediately preceding the dismemberment. Particularly one influential, but biased explanation of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia is considered. Books by the sociologist Stjepan Meštrović merit particular attention in the depiction of bias towards the Yugoslavia break-up. It is refuted that there was a fundamental incompatibility based on authoritarianism of any nationality, on emotional instability of any nationality, of ethnic stratification, of ethnic distance among the basic groups, which may explain the break-up. These explanations fall within ethnic essentialism, downplaying historicity and structure within ethnic groups, and the manipulability of ethnicity. It is proposed that the break-up be explained by a set of structural and processual factors of a political and cultural nature, where one can conclude that the former Yugoslavia served as a nation-building institution, but for numerous nationalities
    Vir: Critical sociology. - ISSN 0896-9205 (Vol. 29, iss. 2, 2003, str. 237-256)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2003
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 12864008

vir: Critical sociology. - ISSN 0896-9205 (Vol. 29, iss. 2, 2003, str. 237-256)
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