Search results for "Methodological nationalism"
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The Politics of Explanatory Nationalism and the Evolution of the United Nations Agenda on Multinational Enterprises
2020
The contemporary world continues to suffer from a number of social problems that are global in scope but impact the Global South disproportionately. While broad and coordinated policy responses to overcome these problems exist, such policies are not shaped solely by the political will to address the problems. On the contrary, their content largely depends on how societies in general and the social problems in particular are routinely explained and conceptualized. We refer to these as explanatory tendencies or paradigms of explanation. As complex problems always have multiple root causes with long causal chains, explanations of these causes necessarily involve some assumptions about relevant…
El «nacionalismo metodológico» como obstáculo en la investigación sociológica sobre migraciones internacionales
2007
La globalizacion ha evidenciado la necesidad de cuestionar el ‘nacionalismo metodologico’ como presupuesto fundamental de la primera modernidad. Este cuestionamiento rompe la asuncion de que los contornos de la sociedad coinciden con los del estado- nacion, y supone un desafio epistemologico para la sociologia, que desde su nacimiento adopto un esquema de clasificacion del espacio social que podria denominarse isomorfismo estado-sociedad. En este articulo realizamos una reflexion sobre los desafios epistemologicos y metodologicos que las migraciones internacionales suponen para la sociologia y las practicas de investigacion social mayoritarias, que generalmente arrastran inercias y presupue…
Mobilities in Finland's Information Society Strategies from 1995 to 2010
2012
Abstract The article explores Finland’s national information society strategies and uses the Finnish case as an example to identify the limitation of the so-called ‘methodological nationalism’ and to explicate the advantages of the mobility paradigm. The research material consists of the Finnish national strategies published between 1995 and 2010. The article identifies two trends from the studied strategies; a further intermingling of physical movement of objects and virtual mobility, and a tendency to reduce corporeal mobility. The study also shows that most mobility-related challenges require international cooperation and multinational solutions, although state-centred thinking was preva…