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Cognitive values of the category of the individual’s social identity

Author(s): Irena Machaj
Subject(s): Social differentiation, Social Theory, Social Norms / Social Control, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Social identity; Social exclusion; Social inclusion; Social diversity;

Summary/Abstract: In the article, the author raises the question of what we can get to know or rather what social phenomena we can reach thanks to the studies on the individual’s social identity. The author adopts three essential features of sociological meaning of social identity: concentration on the consciousness part of life, subjective research orientation and the relational character of the individual’s social identity. Cognitive values are presented in the form of explicitly articulated questions, which are posed when we research on the identity of the individual in itself and when it helps to discover the other social phenomena, such as systems of values, mechanisms of the social exclusion-inclusion and mechanisms of the social diversity.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 17-31
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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