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Symbols and the World System: National Anthems and Flags
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- Cerulo, Karen A. (Author)
Title
Symbols and the World System: National Anthems and Flags
Abstract
When one examines current national anthems and flags, one finds a great deal of variety. What explains this variation? Possible factors include a nation's world-system position and its degree of modernization. Specifically, I analyze the ways in which world-system position and modernization affect the design or configuration—the syntactic structure—of the symbols national leaders adopt to convey their nation's identity. Findings reveal a link between a nation's world-system position and the structure of its symbols. Leaders of core nations adopt more basic anthems and flags than their semiperiphery and periphery counterparts. However, modernization has no such influence.
Publication
Sociological Forum
Date
June 1993
Volume
8
Issue
2
Pages
243-271
Journal Abbr
Sociol Forum
ISSN
0884-8971, 1573-7861
Archive
Springer Nature Link
Language
[eng] English
Library Catalog
International Vexillological Index (IVI)
License
available for purchase online at URL
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[IVI.CID] 70d7799b-57c7-4e99-9d5e-f5423e9426a3
Citation
Cerulo, Karen A. 1993. “Symbols and the World System: National Anthems and Flags.” Sociological Forum 8 (2): 243–71. Springer Nature Link. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01115492.
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