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Sociological Issues and Perspectives on Dialectics between Culture and European Identity

This article describes the basic framework of the field of sociology of identity. It offers an overview of themes and issues around (1) cultural identities ; (2) the social aspects of individual and collective memory ; (3) social construction of identity ; and (4) relations between European and national identity in the EU. Such issues are relevant today from the perspective of sociology of identity and the article demonstrates some theoretical problems that arise and some directions in which they can be further developed. But such issues are also relevant in social discourse on a sense of belonging and self-understanding of Europeans and in shaping individual and collective identities. Their comprehension helps to investigate continuity and discontinuity in social life, as well as current conflicts and cultural ties.

Sociology; Identity; Construction; Europe; Culture

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