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Article: National identity issues in the new German elites: a study of German university students.
- Article from:
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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The problematic of identity, especially collective identity, is a topic of far-reaching importance in advanced modernity (e.g., Eisenstadt and Giesen 1995). Giddens, for example, highlights identity as a central concern, linking self as "a reflexive project" to modernity (1991). In this project, Giddens extends Erikson's seminal work on "identity crisis," which focused on individual personality development (Erikson 1968), to the development of a larger collectivity; any larger group. Curiously, Giddens does not treat a particularly significant form of collective identity--that of national identity.
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