---
_id: '66786'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This article focuses on ancestry as a controversial marker of Britishness/Germanness.
    Considering developments in nationality law and large-scale survey data for England
    and Germany, it illustrates that macrocontextual distinctions into civic and ethnic
    nations tend to overestimate cross-national differences, while underestimating
    important within-country variations according to people’s educational background.
    The fact that—in both countries—higher levels of formal education are strongly
    associated with more ethnically inclusive notions of legitimate national membership
    underlines the formative potential of formal education in contemporary multicultural
    societies.</jats:p>
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Andreas
  full_name: Pöllmann, Andreas
  id: '77437'
  last_name: Pöllmann
  orcid: 0000-0002-9090-2547
citation:
  ama: 'Pöllmann A. Locating ancestry in notions of Britishness/Germanness: Beyond
    waning myths of civic and ethnic nations. <i>Sage Open</i>. 2012;2(4):1-6. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666">10.1177/2158244012466666</a>'
  apa: 'Pöllmann, A. (2012). Locating ancestry in notions of Britishness/Germanness:
    Beyond waning myths of civic and ethnic nations. <i>Sage Open</i>, <i>2</i>(4),
    1–6. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666">https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Pöllmann_2012, title={Locating ancestry in notions of Britishness/Germanness:
    Beyond waning myths of civic and ethnic nations}, volume={2}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666">10.1177/2158244012466666</a>},
    number={4}, journal={Sage Open}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Pöllmann,
    Andreas}, year={2012}, pages={1–6} }'
  chicago: 'Pöllmann, Andreas. “Locating Ancestry in Notions of Britishness/Germanness:
    Beyond Waning Myths of Civic and Ethnic Nations.” <i>Sage Open</i> 2, no. 4 (2012):
    1–6. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666">https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666</a>.'
  ieee: 'A. Pöllmann, “Locating ancestry in notions of Britishness/Germanness: Beyond
    waning myths of civic and ethnic nations,” <i>Sage Open</i>, vol. 2, no. 4, pp.
    1–6, 2012, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666">10.1177/2158244012466666</a>.'
  mla: 'Pöllmann, Andreas. “Locating Ancestry in Notions of Britishness/Germanness:
    Beyond Waning Myths of Civic and Ethnic Nations.” <i>Sage Open</i>, vol. 2, no.
    4, SAGE Publications, 2012, pp. 1–6, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666">10.1177/2158244012466666</a>.'
  short: A. Pöllmann, Sage Open 2 (2012) 1–6.
date_created: 2026-08-23T17:24:03Z
date_updated: 2026-08-24T08:16:34Z
doi: 10.1177/2158244012466666
extern: '1'
intvolume: '         2'
issue: '4'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 1-6
publication: Sage Open
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2158-2440
  - 2158-2440
publication_status: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'Locating ancestry in notions of Britishness/Germanness: Beyond waning myths
  of civic and ethnic nations'
type: journal_article
user_id: '77437'
volume: 2
year: '2012'
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