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National Identities

National Identities is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand National Identities rather than just read about it. In short: National Identities is a peer-reviewed academic journal on the topic of national and ethnic identity. It is published five times a year by Taylor & Francis.

Key takeaways

National Identities belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect National Identities to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of National Identities from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

National Identities is a peer-reviewed academic journal on the topic of national and ethnic identity. It is published five times a year by Taylor & Francis. The journal was founded by Pippa Catterall (of the University of Westminster). In addition to Catterall, the current editors are David Kaplan (Kent State University), Samir Pandya (University of Westminster), and Becky Kook (Ben Gurion University).

Aim In the journal's inaugural issue, the editors described National Identities as a "forum" for discussion of "competing sources of identity, whether regional, tribal, religious or political.." and stated that "the prime unit of analysis" would be identity, "how it is expressed and mediated, and how it relates to the state and the problematic construction of the nation." According to David Kaplan, one of the journal's four editors and the journal's anchor editor, the goal of the journal is to "fill in some of those holes that were there between those different types of journals dealing with ethnicity on one hand and nations and nationalism on the other." The Bibliographical Bulletin on Federalism describes National Identities as part of the trend towards globalization, which led to a, "growing interest in national identities."

Abstracting and Indexing According to Taylor & Francis, "National Identities is currently abstracted and indexed in British Humanities Index; CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; Index Islamicus; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); OCLC; Political Science and Government Abstracts; SCOPUS; Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts and Social Planning/ Policy and Development Abstracts."

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with National Identities

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what National Identities claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to National Identities before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about National Identities ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of National Identities

In research: National Identities appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses National Identities in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: National Identities is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 5 times per year journals, Academic journals established in 1999, English-language journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for National Identities outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study National Identities in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what National Identities means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain National Identities out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is National Identities in simple terms?

National Identities is a peer-reviewed academic journal on the topic of national and ethnic identity. It is published five times a year by Taylor & Francis.

Why does National Identities matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study National Identities?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on National Identities.