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58. DEFINITION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY
One of the leading human needs is the need for a variety of relationships with the outside world, the need for collective life, which is realized through the self-identification of the individual with any ideas, values, social groups and cultures. This kind of self-identification is defined in science by the concept of "identity".
The wide dissemination of this concept and its introduction into scientific circulation was due to the works of the American psychologist E. Erickson. Nowadays this concept is included in the lexicon of all social sciences and humanities, it attracts the attention of scientists in various fields and gives rise to numerous theoretical and empirical studies of this problem.
Identity in the most general sense, it means a person's awareness of his belonging to any socio-cultural group, allowing him to determine his place in the social space and freely navigate in the world.
The need for identity is caused by the fact that each person needs a certain orderliness in his life, which he can get only by being in the community of other people.
To do this, he must voluntarily accept the elements of consciousness that dominate in this community, tastes, habits, norms, values and other means of interconnection created by the people around him.
The assimilation of these elements of the social life of a particular group gives a person's life a predictable character, and also makes him involved in the corresponding cultural tradition.
Since each individual is simultaneously a member of several different sociocultural groups, he has several identities at once.
In their totality, a person’s gender, ethnic and religious affiliation, professional status, etc. themselves, other people, society and the world as a whole).
The essence of cultural identity It consists in self-identification of a person with certain cultural patterns of a particular cultural community.
People's ideas about themselves differ significantly in the cultural traditions of different eras and peoples. Usually a person acts as a carrier of the culture in which he grew up and formed as a person. Meeting someone from a different culture can be enriching, but it can also lead to confrontation. Therefore, it is important to exclude in cultural interaction the causes that can lead to conflicts.
Author: Barysheva A.D.
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