... nation, or desire for an advancement of that nation and projection of its virtues and powers. In a world of interdependence, trade agreements and the increasingly inter-reliant nature of the European Union, many have questioned why nationalism is still so relevant, especially when considering how little attention the so-called founders of sociology paid to it. Although Treitschke and Weber both ... the argument. Firstly, his functionalist argument, in which he equates society to an organism, and thus concluding that, like bodies, societies have certain needs, is undermined by the fact t...

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