Nationalism & Modernity

Liah Greenfield
Nationalism & Modernity

Tradition weighs heavily on the study of modern society. Our views of it are still to a large extent defined by the ideas of our (disciplinary) fathers.

The modernization theory of the 1950s and 1960s, composed as it was predominantly of structuralist-functionalisim as well as Marxist and neo-Marxist approaches (which, it should be kept in mind, are also structuralist and functionalist), was at its basis a variety of historical materialism.