10.2307_684637.txt

@article{10.2307/684637,
 ISSN = {08848971, 15737861},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/684637},
 abstract = {When one examines current national anthems and flags, one finds a great deal of variety. What explains this variation? Possible factors include a nation's world-system position and its degree of modernization. Specifically, I analyze the ways in which world-system position and modernization affect the design or configuration--the syntactic structure--of the symbols national leaders adopt to convey their nation's identity. Findings reveal a link between a nation's world-system position and the structure of its symbols. Leaders of core nations adopt more basic anthems and flags than their semiperiphery and periphery counterparts. However, modernization has no such influence.},
 author = {Karen A. Cerulo},
 journal = {Sociological Forum},
 number = {2},
 pages = {243--271},
 publisher = {[Wiley, Springer]},
 title = {Symbols and the World System: National Anthems and Flags},
 volume = {8},
 year = {1993}
}