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Modern Monarchy: A Comparative View from Denmark

Author(s) -

Jenkins Richard

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

sociological research online

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593

H-Index - 49

ISSN - 1360-7804

DOI - 10.5153/sro.704

Subject(s) - monarchy , modernity , legitimation , sociology , windsor , constitutional monarchy , democracy , danish , absolute monarchy , hierarchy , ethos , law , political science , politics , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , biology

Using as its centre piece a Royal Visit, this article draws upon ethnography froma small town in Jutland, Denmark, to examine the role of the monarchy in Danishsociety. By focussing upon performance, and upon the management of the localcultural contradictions of equality and hierarchy, and modernity and tradition,the delicate balance between the sacred and the profane in the legitimation ofmonarchy in social democratic Denmark is explored. Comparisons are drawn withthe United Kingdom monarchy, arguing that there are no transferrable lessons forthe House of Windsor from the relatively successful adaptation to modernity ofthe House of Glucksborg.

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