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Course Syllabus

2025/2026

National Identity and Belonging

Type: Mago-Lego
Delivered by: School of Sociology
Where: Faculty of Social Sciences
When: 4 module
Open to: students of one campus
Language: English
Contact hours: 24

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

The course is dedicated to key conceptual and methodological issues in resrearch on national identity and belonging. We will cover the following topis: (1) mapping the field (key concepts, theories, and empirical findings and their relation to broader areas of comparative research); (2) current research agenda (key debated issues in national identity studies, unresolved disputes, specific research questions); (3) measuring national identity (national identity related items in key cross-cultural survey datasets, their pros and cons, ways of designing survey items capturing various facets of national identity; comp;ex national identity indices, their rationale, replicability, and (non-)invariance; (4) modeling national identity (national identity as a dependent and independent variable, national identity at individual and country levels in multilevel models);(5) studying national identity discourse (textual and visual sources on national identity, data collection, CDA and its alternatives, normative issues and (limits of) self-critical distancing); 6. studying national identity narratives (collecting individual narratives of national identity formation, selecting national history narratives, comparative narratives analysis within and across countries); (7) national identity in big data (sources, varieties of content, reliability); (8) presenting comparative research on national identity: things to highlight and things to avoid, typical questions and model answers. The course participants will get the first-hand knowledge of the ways academic knowledge on national identities is produced and decisions it entails. Each participant will learn in what ways comparative social research on national identity makes use of his/her preferred research methods and relates to his/her sphere of academic interest.