Abstract

PICKEL, Andreas. ¿Qué clase de sistema es la Cultura nacional, si es que es un sistema?: Perspectiva evolucionista sobre los fundamentos filosóficos de las naciones y del nacionalismo. Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2013, vol.7, n.14, pp.7-45. ISSN 2007-8110.

The concept of nation has a central, though questioned, status in the multidisciplinary literature on nationalism, while in sociology it a less relevant status. Yet discourses on "the national" proliferate. This paper offers a reconceptualization of "nations" as "national cultures", employing an evolutionary perspective and a systemic framework in which "nations" are understood as cultural systems of a special kind. National cultures are intimately tied to natural languages, and the acquisition of a national culture occurs as part of the acquisition of a natural language. Acquiring a natural language is a prerequisite for learning other cultural systems (artificial languages as well as other natural languages). National cultures function as metacultures and reference cultures for modern states. National cultures should be considered as the most fundamental type of cultural system today.

Keywords : nations; national culture; cultural systems; social systems; symbolic systems; natural languages.

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