In Search of Russian Ethnic and Political Identity in Modern Era

1. In Search of Russian Ethnic and Political Identity in Modern Era

ETHNO-CONFESSIONAL PROCESSES IN
MODERN WORLD
Masters program
5 ECTS Credits

2. Let’s negotiate on the terms…

Identity
Sameness
Personality
Individuality
Consciousness
Self-Identification
Self-Imagination
Image of Other
Individual picture
of the world
Sense of community
belonging
Socialization
Assumption of
common experience
Who am I?
I am who I am.
I am what I am.
I am that I am.
I am the part
of community.
Collective
effervescence

3. Attempts of definition

Origination: Late 16th century (in the sense 'quality of
being identical'): from late Latin identitas, from
Latin idem'same'.
What is Identity ?
the fact of being who a person is;
the characteristics determining who a person is;
sameness in all that constitutes the objective reality of a
thing;
the distinguishing character or personality of an
individual;
the qualities, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or
group different from others;
a person's conception and expression of their own and
others' individuality or group affiliations.

4.

Identity is the reflective selfconception or self-image that
we each derive from our family,
gender, cultural, ethnic, and
individual socialization
process
StellaTing-Toomey

5. IDENTITY

IDENTIFICATION?
OUTCOME,
ISSUE,
PROCESS, ACT
EFFECT, (it takes place in the
process of socialization,
STATUS
assimilation,
(it is the result
acculturation
etc.)
of identification)

6. LEVELS OF IDENTITY

•Personal (what makes us unique).
•Relational (our relationships with
others).
•Cultural, Communal or Social (largescale communities such as.
•nationality, ethnicity, gender,
religious or political
affiliation).
Stuart McPhail Hall

7. IDENTITY & MENTALITY

MENTALITY
mental capacity or
endowment
the set of one's mind;
view; outlook
the state or quality of ment
al or intellectual ability
a way of thinking; mental
inclination or character
IDENTITY
The side of collective /
ethnical character / mentality
transforms into the feature of
identity if it becomes the
object of reflection; if the
representatives of ethnic
group identify this side of
character as typical feature,
the streak of distinction
between “WE” and “OTHERS”