Kłopoty z tożsamością w ponowoczesnym świecie
Problems with identity in the postmodern world

Author(s): Elżbieta Firlit
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: social identity; the identity of the individual; collective identity; cultural identity; typologies of identity; postmodern society; society networks
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the main theoretical approach, on the basis of which an interest for the identity of the individual, discusses the concerns and arguments that spoke in favor of extending the sociological analyzes on the collective identities. Among collective identities are discussed in more detail the cultural identity and the legitimacy of the use of this category of conceptual changes in the study of contemporary societies. The basic question is problematic utility category of identity (both individual and collective) in the description and analysis of the structure and dynamics of society era of late modernity, also called “network society”. In the context of this question invoked the theoretical concepts of identity, formulated by Zygmunt Bauman, Anthony Giddens, Bronisław Misztal, and Manuel Castells. The key finding emphasizes the importance of the question of the identity of individuals and groups in the modern globalized world of liquid modernity and the search for such research paradigms, which would recognize the new identity of the actors individual and collective ways of their construction, as well as the relationships between traditional and new identities, and the feedback coupling between identity dynamics and the dynamics of the structure and form of contemporary society.

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