Promotion of Interests Assignment Reports

RUNNING HEAD: HISTORY
HISTORY
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HISTORY
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Nationalism, in sociology, refers to the promotion of interests of a certain nation or of
a certain group who promotes their own interest, in name of the nation. Nationalism is an
important ideology followed by social activities and administrators of the national level in
order to promote sovereignty of the country. Nationalism promotes self-determination in the
framework of the national administration and ideally, it brings out social harmony and
cultural harmony in the sociocultural context of the country. The actual idea of nationalism is
to promote the sociocultural equity in the nation and is to promote a respect for social
diversity that would finally lead to more integrity and autonomy in the central administration
of the country (Armstrong, 2017). Nationalism is of two major types – civic and ethic
nationalism which serves two different purposes. While civic nationalism aims to improve
and promote the shared values, institutional thoughts and a sense of constitutional patriotism
is also developed through in these type of nationalism campaigns (Closs Stephens, 2016).
The ethical nationalism promotes a sense of ethnicity, culture and heritage amongst the
people of the country so that it complies and contributes with the integrity needs and needs of
the country’s sovereignty campaign. Nationalism in the right hands or in the wrong hands has
potency to either unite or divide people, respectively and history has provided us with various
incidents pertaining to the same in the period of 1850-80. The first example is Otto von
Bismarck who through Prussian chancellor accomplished unification of Germany by forging
short periods of timed wars against Austria, France and Denmark. Otto von Bismarck
inspired the German nationalists who were active in the other German states. That they too
joined his forces and fought alongside him in the aforementioned wars. They along with the
influence of Otto von Bismarck was able to maintain peace and balance in their country.
Secondly, the example of Italian nationalism that started in nineteenth century and this
chiefly begun as the "Revival" and "Resurgence" movement and as the cardinal momentum
in unification of Italy which in Italian means Risorgimento. This Risorgimento is a hugely