The urgent need for the study of exclusive identities in conflict is ever more apparent in a globalizing world in which societies are becoming multicultural and complex and in which inter-cultural contact and the co-existence of languages and cultures comes increasingly to bear on the construction of plural identities. The present book considers perversion in the construction of identity and the perverse usage of identity in areas such as social cohesion - xenophobia, racism, ostracism, rejection, ageism, marginalisation - and the mismanagement of linguistic identity, language groups and ass
L'article s'attache d'abord à recenser de manière non exhaustive les difficultés et les conditions réelles qu'implique toute entreprise de patrimonialisation authentiquement militaire, c'est-à-dire fidèle aux fondamentaux et aux missions assignées aux armées. À partir de deux exemples, le défilé et l'uniforme, il revient ensuite sur les dangers qu'entraînent pour le lien armée/nation des projets de patrimonialisation mal conduits, en risquant d'un côté de banaliser les identités militaires et d'un autre de les séparer du reste de la société.
In: L' Europe en formation: revue d'études sur la construction européenne et le fédéralisme = journal of studies on European integration and federalism, Band 379, Heft 1, S. 95-121
Cet article examine l'impact de l'identité régionale en Flandre et en Wallonie sur l'ethnocentrisme, la préférence pour une plus grande décentralisation et le soutien à l'intégration. Il le fait à deux niveaux. Premièrement, il évalue l'hypothèse que l'identification régionale individuelle est associée à des attitudes plus europhiles. L'analyse révèle qu'une forte identité régionale affaiblit le soutien à l'intégration à la fois en Flandre et en Wallonie. Deuxièmement, le document compare l'impact de la construction de l'identité ethnique en Flandre avec la construction de l'identité civique en Wallonie. En Flandre, une vision plus ethnocentrique des membres de la communauté est couplée à une plus grande demande pour la souveraineté régionale. Pour une partie importante de la population flamande, en particulier les partisans du radical de droite Vlaams Belang, l'intégration compromet la souveraineté de la « nation » flamande. En Wallonie, les attitudes ethnocentriques sont relativement faibles. Cependant, la mauvaise performance économique de la Wallonie a rendu les Wallons plus protectionnistes et ethnocentriques, bien que moins eurosceptiques que les Flamands.
In: Analele Universității București: Annals of the University of Bucharest = Les Annales de l'Université de Bucarest. Științe politice = Political science series = Série Sciences politiques, Band 6, S. 15-24
In: Analele Universității București: Annals of the University of Bucharest = Les Annales de l'Université de Bucarest. Științe politice = Political science series = Série Sciences politiques, Band 12, S. 3-12
It seems possible to distinguish a traditional design and a modern vision from Europe, the first resting on an ontology, the second on a phenomenological construction. Traditional Europe is the incarnation of a culture in a geographically variable space, territories being able to be gained or lost. In this design, the identity of Europe is determined by its elements founders who gave him its unit. Contrary, since the modern society is the result of a contract, the European Union wants to be detached of any ontological identity. Moreover, whereas in the Roman and medieval tradition, the empire was a qualitative and spiritual concept, this one rocked in the reign of the quantity. Consequently, the territorial extent of the European Union, in the modern thought, is only limited by the wills.
In: Ukrai͏̈nsʹkyj sociolohičnyj žurnal: naukove ta informacijne vydannja, Heft 23
ISSN: 2079-1771
The article is focused on the historical sociology analysis of social identities studies, the results of which are presented in scientific publications in top Ukrainian periodicals. The direction of development of such researches in thematic, theoretical, and methodological aspects of their socio-cultural context is outlined. Possible new directions of research on the problem chosen by the author are determined. The author conducted a content analysis of the professional publications where the subject is identity and identification placed in the online archives of professional publications of Ukraine in sociology for the last decade. An analysis of the thematic diversity of the articles revealed that the vast majority of them are devoted to specific identities, primarily ethnic-national and local, identity is considered as a specific feature of the group; only a quarter of the publications have a general theoretical character and focused in the analysis of identity as such. It was found that the dominant research focuses have long been dominated by conceptualization and analysis of the formation of a selected social identity, but in recent years the authors pay more attention to the functional load of social identities, in particular their impact on Ukrainian society, especially its integration/disintegration, on conflicts and solidarity. The conclusion about a certain decrease in attention to the subject of social identities, and at the same time theoretical, methodological, thematic, and subject complication of their researches are formulated. It is emphasized that further comprehensive studies of identities (their connections, contexts, and social consequences) have a scientific perspective because it is possible to reach a deeper understanding of the processes taking place in modern Ukrainian society with their help.