THE ROLE AND THE FUNCTION OF THE NAME IN DEFINING THE PERSONAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL CONVERGENCES IN MODERN RESEARCH
THE ROLE AND THE FUNCTION OF THE NAME IN DEFINING THE PERSONAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL CONVERGENCES IN MODERN RESEARCH

Summary/Abstract: The below article dwells on how the human name has been integrated into the list of defining attributes of the identity as a concept, and its function in the human personal and social relationships. Traditionally embedded into the linguistic/onomastic sphere, the topic of human names became a rich asset in fields such as logic, philosophy and psychology, but which, based on these channels, gradually gained in both theoretically and experimentally domains an autonomous position within the contemporary sociological research. Articulated around the applied research of Jean Piaget and John Dewey at the beginning of the twentieth century on education, children's learning processes and their social integration, modern theories on the name met with the ideas formulated by John Searle, Erik Erikson and Saul Kripke, in the 1960s and 1970s, and grew a deep root in modern sociological consciousness. Both theoretical and practical scopes of this subject have predominantly crystallized around the concept of identity, thus knowing an exponential evolution in the narrowly dedicated research on minorities, and marginalized ethnic groups. The aim of this study is to properly place the name in the universe of human relationship. In fulfilling this theme, we will refer mainly to the below cited authors' theories, as well as to the most recent works dedicated to emphasizing the importance of the name in building one's identity, on both personal and social sides.

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