European identity as a contrast or an extension of national identity?: on the meaning of European identity
In: Methods, theories, and empirical applications in the social sciences: Festschrift for Peter Schmidt, S. 249-245
In: Methods, theories, and empirical applications in the social sciences: Festschrift for Peter Schmidt, S. 249-245
In: Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences, S. 249-254
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 63, Heft 6, S. 935-956
ISSN: 0966-8136
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 63, Heft 6, S. 935-955
ISSN: 0966-8136
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In: Europe Asia studies, Band 63, Heft 6, S. 935-955
ISSN: 1465-3427
In: Politics, philosophy & economics: ppe, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 285-288
ISSN: 1741-3060
Personal identity and social identity are two very different concepts and the idea of getting them together, as Bhikhu Parekh proposes, within an integrated bundle of some `overall identity' raises serious questions of coherence. Personal identity demands the `sameness' of a person (Who is this guy? Am I still the same person that I was ten years ago?). Social identity is focused instead on our social affiliations, such as identifying with others with, say, the same nationality, or the same religion, or same political partnership. We can make reasoned choices about our priorities in social affiliation. Those who want to make our social affiliation a matter of `discovery' rather than of choice may frighten us by saying that we would lose our overall identity if we were to choose to affiliate differently (for example as an Indian and not just as a Hindu, or as British and not just as a Muslim). To understand that there is no threat to personal identity involved in such choices is important both for clarity of analysis and for standing up against the herd behaviour of identity politics.
In: Politics, philosophy & economics: ppe, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 267-284
ISSN: 1741-3060
Identity refers, among other things, to what distinguishes an individual and makes him or her this person rather than some other. It has two closely related dimensions: personal and social. Personal identity refers to the individual's fundamental beliefs and commitments in terms of which he orientates himself to the world and defines his place in it. Social identity refers to those relations with which the individual identifies and which he regards as an integral part of himself. Social identity is inherently plural. How an individual balances and prioritizes different identities is a result of the dialectic between her self-understanding and social and political environment.
In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Band 9, Heft 3
This study examines the use of e-mail as a tool for long term discussion between teachers and grade six students. E-mail messages between grade six students and teachers were collected over the course of one academic year. Methods of conversation analysis within a framework of social practice are used to examine the data. While identity is more readily constructed and more fully developed in contexts which allow for physical embodiment such as face-to-face discussion, this analysis found that identity can be constructed in a context that does not provide for the physical embodiment of identity: Identity was constructed using the social, cultural, and technological tools provided and supported by e-mail to develop social practices germane to the e-mail discussion. This study has implications for further understanding the relation between identity, goals, constraints and affordances, and the collaborative creation of social practices in asynchronous computer mediated communication.
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In: Sullivan, Clare (2008) 'Privacy or identity?', International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, vol.2(3), pp.289-324
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In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 78-91
ISSN: 0092-5853
It is commonplace in European constitutional practice and theory to use the terms 'national identity' and 'constitutional identity' interchangeably. On the one hand, several Advocates General to the European Court of Justice have employed the concept of 'constitutional identity' to delineate what is protected under Article 4(2) TEU, even though, strictly speaking that Treaty provision refers to the Member States' national identities, inherent in their fundamental structures. On the other hand, certain domestic constitutional courts which present themselves as the ultimate defenders of the identity of their constitution have pointed to Article 4(2) TEU to legitimate their assumed power to review secondary EU law against their constitutional identity. Against this background, it should not be a surprise that, also in academic commentary, there is a strong tendency to equate national with constitutional identity. This article swims against the tide. It defies the conflation of national and constitutional identity prevalent in European constitutionalism. To this end, it makes three central points. First, it is submitted that the said conflation is not founded on a solid theory of legal interpretation. Second, this paper advances the argument that the obligation to respect the national identities of the Member States, as enshrined in Article 4(2) TEU, rests on different normative assumptions than the claim, made by certain constitutional courts, that European law must comply with constitutional identity for it to be applicable in the domestic legal order. Whereas the Union's obligation to pay heed to national identity is grounded in a liberal concern for the respectful treatment of the members of a multinational political community, the constitutional courts' preoccupation with constitutional identity rests on a particular conception of sovereignty. In other words, the demands for respect for national and constitutional identity are informed by distinct theoretical narratives. Third, it is argued that the Treaty makers had good reasons for writing into the EU Treaty a requirement of respect for the Member States' national identities rather than the States' sovereignty, or their constitutional identity, for that matter. The Treaties' focus on national identity should therefore be embraced and taken seriously.
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