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Thus it approaches the political understanding of the nation. The instrumental way of construing the nation stresses the pragmatic and situational aspects of large communities. a community which unites individuals through „the same blood and common fate“. In primordial terminology the nation is primarily the „ethno-nation“, i.e. She submits two ways of construing the nation as basic ideal types: primordial versus instrumental.

Summary/Abstract: The author argues that the content of the concept of „national identity“ is determined by the way how we construe „nation“. Published by: Slovenská Akadémia Vied - Kabinet výskumu sociálnej a biologickej komunikácie The Construction of National Identity - On Primordialism and Instrumentalism Author(s): Viera Bačová The Construction of National Identity - On Primordialism and Instrumentalism