In Search of Russian Ethnic and Political Identity

In Search of Russian Ethnic and Political Identity in Modern Era ETHNO-CONFESSIONAL PROCESSES IN MODERN WORLD Masters program 5 ECTS Credits

Let’s negotiate on the terms… Identity Sameness Personality Individuality Consciousness Self-Identification Self-Imagination Image of Other Individual picture of the world Sense of community belonging Socialization Assumption of common experience Who am I? I am who I am what I am the part of community. Collective effervescence

Attempts of definition Origination: Late 16 th century (in the sense 'quality of being identical'): from late Latin identitas, from Latin idem'same'. What is Identity ? the fact of being who a person is; the characteristics determining who a person is; sameness in all that constitutes the objective reality of a thing; the distinguishing character or personality of an individual; the qualities, beliefs, etc. , that make a particular person or group different from others; a person's conception and expression of their own and others' individuality or group affiliations.

Identity is the reflective selfconception or self-image that we each derive from our family, gender, cultural, ethnic, and individual socialization process Stella. Ting-Toomey

IDENTITY or IDENTIFICATION? OUTCOME, ISSUE, PROCESS, ACT EFFECT, (it takes place in the STATUS process of socialization, assimilation, (it is the result acculturation etc. ) of identification)

LEVELS OF IDENTITY • Personal (what makes us unique). • Relational (our relationships with others). • Cultural, Communal or Social (largescale communities such as. • nationality, ethnicity, gender, religious or political affiliation). Stuart Mc. Phail Hall

IDENTITY & MENTALITY mental capacity or endowment the set of one's mind; view; outlook the state or quality of men tal or intellectual ability a way of thinking; mental inclination or character IDENTITY The side of collective / ethnical character / mentality transforms into the feature of identity if it becomes the object of reflection; if the representatives of ethnic group identify this side of character as typical feature, the streak of distinction between “WE” and “OTHERS”