Relationship between nationalism and nation-building: Qualitative content analysis

Abstract

We think it is crucial that contemporary study consider the genuine issues with nationalism and nationbuilding in light of globalization. This article’s major goal is to organize the viewpoints of international scientists on this subject. We thus disregard scientific literature that is written in Kazakh and Russian. In this study, «Nationalism and nation- building» and «Nation-building and nationalism» were taken as the main keywords, and to solve the main task, a qualitative content analysis of articles indexed in the Scopus database was carried out. The author of the article prioritized 41 pieces of scientific literature in order to accomplish the study’s findings. Most scholars who have studied nation-building tend to view nationalism as a form of nation-building. We do not abandon this idea, but we are looking for answers to 3 research questions (RQ) aimed at solving research problems. In the first section of the results and discussion of the article, the manifestations of the relationship between nationalism and nation-building are discussed using the examples of 17 countries. In this section, we focus on Russian, German, Spanish, and Malay nationalism and other issues, such as the influence of socialist ideas on nation-building. The second section of the study focuses on the cultural aspects of nationalism and nation-building and their role in the educational process. In the section, we discussed such issues as the importance of language in determining national and cultural identity, the democratization of the education system and the reform of history education, the impact of bioethics on nation-building, etc.

Key words: nationalism, nation-building, state-building, types of nationalism, types of identity