Społeczno-kulturowe podstawy procesu kształtowania tożsamości we współczesnym świecie
Socio-Cultural Basis of the Process of Identity Formation in Contemporary World

Summary/Abstract: The process of determining one’s identity has a specific historical context. It proceeds in given social and cultural circumstances which differentiate its course and the attributes of identity as well as decide about the kind of problems that need to be faced in creating or accepting one’s identity. The currently ongoing processes of modernization and globalization, accompanied by transformations of the political system in various regions of the world (Central-Eastern Europe among others) make it possible to formulate the problem of the impact of society, especially its culture, specific values, norms and patterns of behaviour on youth and the way in which the latter solve their fundamental developmental task, viz. the determination of their identity.

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