Lietuvių nacionalinės tapatybės bruožai: „krizės asmenybė“ ir jos tipažai
The trait of national identity of Lithuanians: “crisis personality” and its subtypes

Summary/Abstract: The article begins with a socio-political evaluation of nature, development and role of national identity. The focus is put on the features that can be explained as a result of intensive change and social deformations. The baseline for developed theoretical construction is a concept of “crisis personality”, defined by Vytautas Kavolis. The author of the article develops it further, makes it more specific by extracting the subtypes of the said personality that are present in a Lithuanian reality. These are: a traditionalist – ethnocollectivist; a “neolithuanus” or a modernist; an outcast; a person of an “outside class”. Social portraits of these subtypes are defined. Exceptional attention is drawn to the determination of these subtypes and the conditions of their development. In the epilogue reflections and the findings the sociologist also addresses the normative behavior which characterizes the personality.

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