Pokolenie Z – z kręgu kultury ponowoczesnej
Generation Z - from the postmodern cultural circle

Summary/Abstract: Presented article shows an attempt to construct the identity of young people born after 1995, which are defined as the "generation Z". Those are the young people from the circle ofpostmodern society. In the postmodern era - everything is fluid, transient, without commitment, but full of possibile escape routes from the adverse environment. Identity model of the youth - now 21-year-olds - oscillates between identity moratorium and distributed identity. The difference between the two models is that life in a moratorium model is a constant choice, but this choice is made out of internal “alternative orientations”, while the identityof a distributed entity does not have a set of internal orientations, anchor points are found outside. So we can say that the identity of the postmodern (youth Z) very often resembles a puzzle scattered in different places, and it’s trying to adapt to the picked up piece. It is worth remembering that the construction of identity at such a young age, may be dominated by the socio-cultural dimension (secondary socialization) rather than through education.

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