Scott Colin, Bilodeau Antoine, Gagnon Audrey, Turgeon Luc
Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Polit Stud (Oxf). 2025 Feb;73(1):6-28. doi: 10.1177/00323217231223400. Epub 2024 Jan 20.
Cultural criteria, like language skills and values, are salient features of nationalism discourse, reflecting imagined boundaries that separate ingroup from outgroup member when thinking about the nation. Despite their salience, the relationship between cultural membership criteria and other civic (attainable) or ethnic (ascriptive) national boundaries, along with their implications for intergroup relations, is contested. Using surveys from = 6448 majority group members in the Canadian province of Québec, we argue cultural boundaries are empirically distinct from civic and ethnic ones. Cultural and civic criteria are both prominent prerequisites for membership into the Québécois national community, but cultural criteria show markedly divergent relationships with outgroup attitudes. The results underline the importance of conceptualizing cultural boundaries as a distinct set of national membership criteria and question the construct validity of blended ethnocultural boundary measures or approaches that aggregate civic and cultural criteria together as equally "attainable" markers of national membership.
文化标准，如语言技能和价值观，是民族主义话语的显著特征，反映了在思考国家时将内群体与外群体成员区分开来的想象边界。尽管它们很突出，但文化成员标准与其他公民（可实现的）或族裔（归属的）国家边界之间的关系，以及它们对群体间关系的影响，仍存在争议。我们使用来自加拿大魁北克省6448名多数群体成员的调查数据，认为文化边界在经验上与公民边界和族裔边界不同。文化标准和公民标准都是成为魁北克民族社区成员的重要先决条件，但文化标准与对外群体的态度有着明显不同的关系。研究结果强调了将文化边界概念化为一套独特的国家成员标准的重要性，并质疑将公民标准和文化标准作为同样“可实现的”国家成员标志汇总在一起的混合族裔文化边界测量方法或途径的建构效度。
