MARGINAL POLITICS, CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND THE CLERGY IN SCOTLAND
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Article publication date: 1 January 1981
Abstract
It is now fashionable to suggest that the Celtic regions of the United Kingdom are the internal colonies of the central English state and that they have been, particularly since the rapid industrialization of the nineteenth century, subject to a penetrating anglicization of their culture and institutions. In terms of the internal colonialism thesis, it can be argued that the cultural nationalism of Scotland which was developed in the nineteenth century was an attempt to maintain the distinctiveness of civil society in Scotland in the context of massive regional economic imbalance. The Scottish intelligentsia, dominated by Edinburgh lawyers and Presbyterian ministers, can thus be compared with the intelligentsia of Third World societies undergoing a process of de‐colonization where separate cultural identities have to be preserved or, if necessary, constructed.
Citation
Turner, B.S. (1981), "MARGINAL POLITICS, CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND THE CLERGY IN SCOTLAND", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 89-113. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012924
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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