Power&difference 2012
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This document discusses the critique of methodological nationalism in social studies research. It summarizes Ulrich Beck's formulation of the critique, which presents a binary opposition between 'good' cosmopolitan research views and 'bad' nationalistic research views. However, the document also questions whether cosmopolitanism is truly superior and non-ideological. It argues that methodological nationalism is just one research ideology among others, and not all globalization research takes a cosmopolitan approach.
Power&difference 2012
- 1. The struggle over globalisation in social studies: cosmopolitanism vs. methodological nationalism Markus Ojala doctoral candidate Department of Social Research University of Helsinki markus.ojala@helsinki.fi Power & Difference Tampere, 2729 August, 2012
- 2. Arguments critique of metholodogical nationalism is closely connected to the rise of the globalisation paradigm in social studies critique of MN can be viewed as politicisation of research Ulrich Becks formulation of the critique of MN based on a binary opposition between good and bad research the focus on nationalism of research is ideologically problematic in itself
- 3. Globalisation and the critique of methodologicala nationalism Globalisation as an academic construction reshapes the research imagination: - eradication of distance, glocal phenomena - boundary-crossing forms of social (inter)action - transnational structures and agents in politics - deterritorialisation of culture Globalisation politicises the status of the (nation-)state >> critique of methodological nationalism
- 4. Critique of methodological nationalism (Beck) society = nation-state; the world consists of societies a guiding premise, manifest in material and interpretation based on the shared history of sociology and the nation-state: the nation, state and society naturalised as reserach units prevents from understanding transnational phenomena and activity
- 5. Methodological nationalism vs. methodological cosmopolitanism (Beck) The nationalistic view The cosmopolitan view society subject to the state the nation-state a creation of social the national vs. the international forces the particular generalised as the phenomena simultaneously within universal, or inter-societal and without comparison the particular as part of the global cultural homogenisation, or (including the national) context incommensurability of cultures global pluralism, multiple modernities
- 6. Politicising research struggle for the interpretation of society metodological nationalism is true, but is cosmopolitanism any better? cosmopolitanism as a normative outline for research: cosmopolitan ideals vs. the negative implications of metodological nationalism nationalism not the only research ideology all globalisation research is not cosmopolitan