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Aspects of identity construction in the context of globalization
Aspects of identity construction in the context of globalization

Author(s): Silviu Coposescu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: identity; identity crisis; globalization; social changes

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on problems of individual and social identity-construction in the context of globalization. The author analyses the concept of identity from an interdisciplinary and modern and postmodern perspectives. As a conclusion the author claims that a new approach strategy of defining and interpreting identity in the epoch of globalization is necessary in order to explain and understand the social changes at local, regional and world levels.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 19-24
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English