This article re-examines two key questions from the sociology of nationalism – why nationalism resonates emotionally and to what extent nations are socially salient – and the implications of these for a sense of peoplehood and collective political agency. The particular focus is on the state. Instead of conflating statehood with nationhood, or seeking to expose it as illusory, sociologists should consider how the state – imagined and experienced as a permanent, trans-historical fixture structuring public power and authority – has crucial conditioning effects on society and politics. It will be posited that statehood is a more useful concept than nationhood for explaining the resonance and salience ascribed to nationalism and nations. Whether we favour reinvigorating or abolishing nationalism, the implications of this argument are profound, with contemporary cosmopolitan sociology in particular suffering analytically and prescriptively from a failure to recognise its tacit methodological statism.

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将国家带回民族主义社会学：Persona Ficta 是政治性的

本文重新审视了民族主义社会学中的两个关键问题——为什么民族主义会在情感上产生共鸣以及国家在多大程度上在社会上具有突出性——以及这些问题对人民意识和集体政治能动性的影响。特别关注的是国家。社会学家不应将国家地位与国家地位混为一谈，或试图将其揭露为虚幻的，而应考虑国家——被想象和体验为构建公共权力和权威的永久的、跨历史的装置——如何对社会和政治产生重要的制约作用。将假定，在解释归因于民族主义和民族的共鸣和显着性方面，国家地位是一个比民族国家更有用的概念。无论我们赞成重振民族主义还是废除民族主义，这一论点的意义都是深远的，