Plural Character and Versions of Configuration of Russian Youth Identity: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Studies
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: The phenomenon of personal social identity has been studied by researchersrepresenting various research areas for a long time, which has helped accumulate anessential fund of knowledge on these topics. At the same time, cultural and historicalchanges that had resulted in scientific paradigm shifts underlay the necessity ofconsidering the problematic area of the social identity of individuals within changingcontexts, such as political, economic or cultural environments. Following theresearchers, our authoring team has prepared the present article on the problems incharacterizing the youth identity configurations at the current stage of Russia’s andglobal development. The main challenge of contemporary social live is its complicityand plurality of social roles the one should play. As a result, we face with so called“plural”, “floating” identity and therefore we have to solve the problem of identity’sconfiguration. It is very important for researchers especially when we study the youth.The authors try to present their version of identity’s configuration of Russian youth(especially students) that is based on theoretical and empirical study of the problem.
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2767900367