CONSTRUCTION OF POLITICAL IDENTITY WITHIN THE GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL TRANSITION Cover Image

КОНСТРУКЦИЈА ПОЛИТИЧКОГ ИДЕНТИТЕТА У КОНТЕКСТУ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИЈЕ И ТРАНЗИЦИЈЕ ДРУШТВА
CONSTRUCTION OF POLITICAL IDENTITY WITHIN THE GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL TRANSITION

Author(s): Lilijana Čičkarić
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Sociology of Politics, Globalization, Politics and Identity
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: globalization; tranzition; political identity; political participation; youth;

Summary/Abstract: This research is based on analysis of the role of historical, political, social and cultural factors in creating the context of political identity formation processes in transition to adulthood. The author exemines the postmodern social environment and its implications on political socialization. Certain characteristics, determined by processes of standardization and homogenization on global level, are identical in both, developed and tranzitional societies in Europe. Increased individualization and reflexivity, as the major points of postmodern society, generate isolation, narcism, cinism, political apathy, social exclusion and marginalization. In the second part of the paper, the dynamic interaction of transitional and globalizing processes and the problem of velue system reconstruction are questioned. Two types of social activism, participation in official political institutions and engagement in non-institutional politics, are considered, especially the participation of young generation in social, economic and political reforms in transitional societies.

  • Issue Year: 37/2003
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 79-99
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian