State, Minority and Identity. Aspects related to Romania's Hungarian Minority
State, Minority and Identity. Aspects related to Romania's Hungarian Minority

Summary/Abstract: "Identity, in what is probably its most frequently used sense, is primarily concerned with the manner in which individuals conceive their particularity and distinctiveness in personal relations. If we consider term in such a narrow sense, we should then distinguish radically between this way of reflecting on identity and uses of the term in describing the basis of collective behavior. Consequently, we must consider the personal, individual identity (conceived as personality, in a psychological sense), and social, collective identity (understood as the basis of an individual’s attachment to groups), as two wholly distinct categories and realities. [...]"

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