EAN: 9783030086930

CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY THE NATION AND THE PROMISE...

When strangers meet in social clubs  watch reality television  or interact on Facebook  they
contribute to the social glue of mass society-not because they promote civic engagement or
democracy  but because they enact the sacred promise of friendship. Where most theories of
nationalism focus on issues of collective identity formation  Kaplan's novel framework turns
attention to compatriots' experience of solidarity and how it builds on interpersonal ties and
performances of public intimacy. Combining critical analyses of contemporary theories of
nationalism  civil society  and politics of friendship with in-depth empirical case studies of
social club sociability  Kaplan ultimately shows that strangers-turned-friends acquire symbolic
male-centered meaning and generate feelings of national solidarity.

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