Dynamics of the complicated system of identities

The article is devoted to the analysis of factors of the dynamics of group identity. Identities are considered in the frame of theory of constructivism and structural-functional approach according which they presented as complicated system of identities divided into types, forms and modes of functioning. Three groups of factors affect on the dynamics of this system. First group of factors are identified as fundamental and they refer to the general conditions of functioning of identities. Second group of factors (particular) applies to the existence, functioning and transformation of communities which are the part of the general one and result from their interrelations. Third group of factors - topical - are the most inconstant and formed peculiarly from institutional-discursive structures of communities and society as a whole as well as from reaction of to this phenomenon of carriers of identity. It is necessary to analyze these three groups of factors altogether because each of them is identified through other and has an impact on each other. These three groups of factors can form several trends of dynamics of the system of identities. On a fundamental level stable and unstable state of the system can be distinguished. Unstable state of the system is divided into two types - "modernizational" and "archaization-al". The differences between them is based on the directions of modification where first is widening of potential of the system and the second is its reduction. Similarly on the level of particular factors of the dynamics of the system some generalized types of them can be distinguished. Since on this level interrelations of communities are analyzed, the trends of this relations can be identified - integration, incorporation and separation. On topical level communities and its sub-groups can develop three options of state: self-reproduction in present conditions, dissatisfaction with own state and generating conflict towards other communities and society as a whole. As a whole sociocultural dynamics represent reluctant which made by totality of described factors and will express in both situations - in internal redistribution of attitudes of communities and in shifts of types of identities. This all in its turn will affect on changes of relations among the elements of the system of identities.

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