This editors’ introduction into the themed issue of IJCS dedicated to the analysis of comparative survey work on national identity and globalization presents a very brief overview of core hypotheses from the five articles collected in the issue. The articles offer a variety of new, rather differentiated insights into how individual-level national identity attitudes and sibling concepts like national pride, patriotism, and nationalist chauvinism are related to societal-level variables that tend to vary with exposure to aspects of globalization, such as migrant influx and economic competition. Aside from the focus on those new contributions, the introduction also offers a few observations on the challenges that the wider national identity research field still faces. Given that the field is dealing with several overlapping attitude concepts, this centrally concerns a partial lack of conceptual clarity, which sometimes translates into ambiguous operationalizations and incomplete or imprecise explication of theoretical mechanisms. We conclude that the contributions of the themed issue, with their careful attention to particular aspects of measures and multi-level processes, may serve as another stepping stone for overcoming at least some of those challenges in the future.

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国际比较社会学杂志“国家认同、民族主义、爱国主义和全球化”特刊介绍

本期编辑对《IJCS》主题的介绍，致力于分析国家认同和全球化的比较调查工作，对该期收集的五篇文章的核心假设进行了非常简短的概述。这些文章提供了各种新的、相当有区别的见解，探讨个人层面的国家认同态度和同胞概念（如民族自豪感、爱国主义和民族沙文主义）如何与社会层面的变量相关，而社会层面的变量往往会随着全球化的各个方面而变化，例如移民涌入和经济竞争。除了关注这些新贡献之外，引言还对更广泛的国家认同研究领域仍然面临的挑战提供了一些观察。鉴于该领域正在处理几个重叠的态度概念，这主要涉及概念清晰度的部分缺乏，这有时会转化为模糊的操作化和理论机制的不完整或不精确的解释。我们的结论是，该主题的贡献，以及对措施和多层次进程的特定方面的认真关注，可能会成为未来克服至少其中一些挑战的另一个垫脚石。