Methodological nationalism

Kyriakos Bonidis

Chapter 19 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences, 2026, pp 133-141 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The concept of “methodological nationalism” is defined as the production of theory through which social scientists naturalize the modern nation-state. The discourse of its contestation emerged in the early 1970s. In this entry, I present the historicity and the narrative of methodological nationalism discourse and its contestation. Initially, I present the historicity of methodological nationalism and its questioning discourses. I briefly present the main arguments of social scientists who articulate it and the ways in which social theory achieves the above naturalization. Then I discuss the arguments of social scientists who criticize methodological nationalism in the economically globalised, networked modern world, which is open to a variety of interactions. Finally, I refer to perspectives of their research within the pluralism of contemporary theories and research methodologies of late modernity and postmodernity.

Keywords: Methodological Nationalism; Social Theory; Nation-state; Modernity; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781803921297
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