Tożsamość w świecie na rozdrożu
Identity in the world at the crosswords

Author(s): Marek S. Szczepański, Anna Śliz
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Identity is an awareness of oneself — that is, the result of an entanglement of a social playerin a network of diverse relations that in a process of interaction shape a man along with the biologicaldimension. Owing to this fact, an individual is a continuum of his or her own experience,as well as an unrepeatable one, or a subjectively constructed configuration of values, historicalfacts, and cultural patters. Identity forms itself through discourse, and the modern world keepsredefining it with regards to the pluralism of cultural worlds in which a man is entangled. Theimpermanence of the world demands constant modifications of identity, which is not a givenconstruct once and for all, but is in the process of becoming in a certain time and space. Individualidentity refers us to the social one, although it is not easily reduced to my self, but ratherrefers to experiencing and familiarizing tradition, the present time, as well as defining the future,which is common to a group. Social identity serves to confirm individual identity in its actualshape. The liquidity of the twenty-first century world reconstructs social structures and modernidentities, which broke stable human relationships, as well as vertical and horizontal belonging toa place. The modern world, which glorifies individualism and collectivism, has created a way ofshaping identity as a form of obligation. A modern man is the one who is shaping his or hr ownidentity in a culturally varied environment, and in opposition to identity that was formed in relationto a place as well as national character of social and cultural structures.

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