Volume 7, 1995
Strukturelle Evoultion
Mathias Bös
Pages 159-169
Zur Evolution nationalstaatlich verfaßter Gesellschaften
The evolution of the nation state is described as a process of bordernisation and de-bordernisation of macro-social units. The processes of political and cultural inclusion within the formation of the nation state lea to three paradoxes of implementation. These paradoxes are analysed with the dichotomies: universal - particularistic, affirmative - critical, and traditional - modern. These three kinds of self-description are reasons for both, the contradictions and the flexibility of the evolution of the nation state.