Introduction: The idea of collectivity / Mark Haugaard and Siniša Malešević -- Different societies? Different cultures? What are human collectivities? / Richard Jenkins -- The construction of collective identities and the continual reconstruction of primordiality / S.N. Eisenstadt -- The fundamentals of the theory of ethnicity / John Rex -- Nationalism and modernity / Mark Haugaard -- The morphogenesis of nation / Gordana Uzelac -- Cultural variety or variety of cultures? / Zygmunt Bauman -- A disagreement about difference / John A. Hall -- Identity : conceptual, operational and historical critique / Siniša Malešević.