This article unfolds sociology’s contribution in helping to understand the emergence and development of nationalism. It engages with nationalism studies and identifies three debates that have significantly shaped this field of research. Against this background, the article explores the question of how sociology can contribute to an understanding of nationalism’s present and future. Using the most recent and ongoing debates in studies of nationalism, the article pinpoints three propositions that jointly form the core of an emerging analytical framework. This framework breaks with the civic–ethnic and primordial–constructivist distinctions that have held dominant positions within nationalism studies, and directs attention towards the roles of, and interactions between, institutions and agency in nationalism. The article explores the potential of this analytical framework by applying it to the arts. It highlights the roles of, and interactions between, institutions and agency in this area, focusing on the Nordic countries in Europe.

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论制度和能动性在民族主义中的作用及它们之间的关系：民族主义研究及其现状和未来的理论探究

本文展示了社会学在帮助理解民族主义的出现和发展方面的贡献。它参与了民族主义研究，并确定了对这一研究领域产生重大影响的三场辩论。在此背景下，本文探讨了社会学如何有助于理解民族主义的现在和未来的问题。本文利用民族主义研究中最近和正在进行的辩论，指出了三个共同构成新兴分析框架核心的命题。这个框架打破了在民族主义研究中占据主导地位的公民-种族和原始-建构主义的区别，并将注意力引向了民族主义中机构和机构的作用和相互作用。本文通过将其应用于艺术来探索这种分析框架的潜力。它突出了机构和机构在该领域的作用和相互作用，重点是欧洲的北欧国家。