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This is, nevertheless, as many sociological studies have confirmed, an extremely complex undertaking, and one benighted with paradoxes, misconceptions, and problems of definition. Robin Williams, in his article, The Sociology of Ethnic Conflicts, asks, "How is ethnicity related to 'nation' and 'nationality'?" Hypothetically, the answer seems straightforward enough: "A nation is a politically conscious ethny, claiming statehood rights on the basis of common ethnicity... Nationalism is an ideological movement in support of a nation." In practice, however, this definition runs into difficulties. "Since few territorial (national) states are populated by a single ethny, the term 'nation-state' is muddled and intellectually dangerous". This is certainly true in the case of Scotland, as Anthony Cohen has pointed out in Personal Nationalism: A Scottish View of Some Rites, Rights, and Wrongs, 1996:
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This is, nevertheless, as many sociological studies have confirmed, an extremely complex undertaking, and one benighted with paradoxes, misconceptions, and problems of definition. Robin Williams, in his article, The Sociology of Ethnic Conflicts, asks, "How is ethnicity related to 'nation' and 'nationality'?" Hypothetically, the answer seems straightforward enough: "A nation is a politically conscious ethny, claiming statehood rights on the basis of common ethnicity... Nationalism is an ideological movement in support of a nation." In practice, however, this definition runs into difficulties. "Since few territorial (national) states are populated by a single ethny, the term 'nation-state' is muddled and intellectually dangerous". This is certainly true in the case of Scotland, as Anthony Cohen has pointed out in Personal Nationalism: A Scottish View of Some Rites, Rights, and Wrongs, 1996:
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