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Exchange on the quantitative measurement of ethnic and national identity *
Author(s) -
Bochsler Daniel,
Green Elliott,
Jenne Erin,
Mylonas Harris,
Wimmer Andreas
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/nana.12688
Subject(s) - ethnic group , nationalism , national identity , identity (music) , quantitative analysis (chemistry) , quantitative assessment , sociology , gender studies , political science , statistics , anthropology , law , mathematics , chemistry , physics , chromatography , politics , acoustics
In recent decades, there has been a noticeable increase in the use of quantitative techniques in the study of ethnicity and nationalism, without, however, a sufficient amount of reflection on how these techniques have contributed to our understanding of ethnic and national identities. As such, in this exchange three sets of authors answer questions about the degree to which it is possible to use quantitative data to measure ethnic and national identities, which types of methods are most suitable in measuring these identities and what the major research findings of this quantitative research are that were not possible using qualitative approaches.