Time and Social Identity

Authors

  • Pier Paolo Bellini Università del Molise

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v5i1.95

Keywords:

identity, social time, self-realization,

Abstract

The paper aims to emphazise the close relations between identity, construction processes and temporal dimension. Analyzing the central concepts of "action", "continuity" and "shared time", we illustrate their radical changes caused by modernity and postmodernity. The phenomena of "discontinuous identity", "life project crisis" and "situationalism" are identified as outcomes of these sudden changes. We conclude that human reflexivity may represent a barrier to instrumental reduction of social relations, strengthen the interpersonal credibility, reconstitute subjective identity continuity.

Author Biography

Pier Paolo Bellini, Università del Molise

Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Sociali e della Formazione

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Published

07.04.2015

How to Cite

Bellini, P. P. (2015). Time and Social Identity. Italian Sociological Review, 5(1), 63. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v5i1.95

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2015)

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