The Seven Most Important Contemporary Concepts of Identity - Part Two

The Seven Most Important Contemporary Concepts of Identity - Article Five - from the book #Identity_Making

part two

4/7 Overcrowding, integration and accumulation of identities:

Accumulation of Identities: Identity is a complex mixture of temporal successive identities.

The Egyptian identity: is an accumulation of pharaonic, Persian, Greek, Roman, Coptic, Sunni Islamic, Fatimid Shiite, Sunni Islamic, monarchy, closed republic, communist republic, and Western republic.

Identities crowding out: a spatial crowding out of the relatively influential inherited and surrounding identities, which produced a diversity of identities within the Egyptian society, consisting of an Islamic identity in its degrees, and a Christian, secular and socialist identity...

Diversity, diversity and crowding of identities:

Integration of identities:

When there is a real will for community unity, values ​​and identity are planned and a social contract that recognizes, preserves, supports, and provides opportunities for growth, and invests in the special characteristics of each component; to make an agreed social contract; In order to achieve the optimal investment, blending and integration among the vocabulary of the diversity of available identities.

Equations:

Accumulation of identities = the chronology of various identities on a single population unit.

Identities crowding out = the demographic accumulation of diverse identities on a single population unit.

Integration of identities = compatibility, coexistence, blending and merging of a number of identities in one framework.

The ingredients of the Identity Integration Industry = Recognition + Insurance + Support + Growth Opportunities + Investment.

The functional benefit of the concept of accumulation, crowding and integration of identities:

1) Accumulation and crowding are a natural cosmic norm, whose importance has increased with the advancement of the means of communication and the direct blending of different cultures and identities.

2) Identity industry and its integration is the basic social and political guarantee for optimal investment in the diversity of identities, and the siege and assimilation of competing identities in one society so as not to reach the difference and conflict between them.

5/7 Identity and community stability:

The stability of society is a great goal that all societies and countries aspire to, and it means:

The relative societal balance between all its religious, ethnic and intellectual components;

Relative economic balance by representing the classes of society (higher, middle, and lower) in acceptable proportions, whereby the majority is for the middle, and the minority is for the upper and lower.

Freedom of circulation between the three classes.

Freedom of belief, and the state maintains an equal distance from all religions.

Mutual recognition among the components of society.

Mutual respect among the components of society, and acceptance of the differences between them.

All components' sense of self and their natural presence in society.

General societal satisfaction.

Mutual good faith between the different components of society.

A sense of security, and the absence of current or future risks or threats.

A real sense of justice, equality and equal opportunities.

The ability of societal components to manage dialogue, and the difference between them.

The rule of law and the achievement of justice.

Its results and indicators of societal stability:

Reducing the intensity of inter-communal conflict between the components of society to a minimum. Community unity, and rallying behind the higher national interests.

Low crime rates and high level of community security.

It provides an environment suitable for thinking, working, production, creativity and innovation.

An attractive environment for investment, and greater opportunities for economic growth. The purity of society from any secret organizations that may arise or be formed.

The strength of national belonging and self-immunity against external penetration.

Threats to societal stability:

1) The economic imbalance and the disparity between the classes of society, between a lower class with a limited income and a limited standard of living, and a higher class with a large income and a high standard of living, even if it is their right to varying scientific and practical levels and their right to obtain a large income that distinguishes them from others.

2) Thinking in a unilateral way that excludes the rest of the components of society.

3) The attempt of some components to monopolize religion, and claim its representation (political employment of religion).

4) the intensity of ideology and its excessive sense of self.

6/7 - Types and forms of identity, and their applications in contemporary reality

First: In terms of social hierarchy:

Individual Identity: The system of values ​​and special ideas that govern the thinking, behavior, performance and achievement of the individual, which define the features and pattern of his personality that distinguishes him from other people.

Identity of the family and tribe: the common values ​​and culture that define the personality and the special pattern that distinguishes it from other families and tribes, and outlines the features of its relationship with the environment in which it lives.

Identity of the institution: the institutional and professional values ​​that shape, regulate and manage the behavior and performance of the employees of the institution, determine the level of production and achievement of the institution, and paint its own mental image in the field of work and society in general.

Identity of the community: Each community has its own culture that distinguishes it from other communities, which is formed from the participants that have been contracted to, and which determine the general features of the personality of its members, just as all societies live in a state of multiplicity and cultural diversity, as well as the multiplicity of the economic, social and cultural layers of society. Each of them has its own cultural and life style that comes within the general framework of the community's identity.

Identity of the state: Each state has its own identity that distinguishes it from the rest of the states and outlines the features of its relationship with other states of the regional and international community, which is emphasized in the state constitution, and is translated into the performance of its planning and executive bodies working in the field of human building, whose results are reflected in the rest of the areas of life in the state.

Second, in terms of ideology:

Ethnic identity: the common features that characterize a group representing a particular breed, which often consists of a mixture of beliefs, values, concepts, language, history, heritage, rituals, and common dress, that distinguish them from other components of society.

Example: the identity of the Berber race in Algeria - the Bengal ethnicity - the Han Chinese...etc.

Religious Identity: The system of beliefs, values, and rituals that constitute a pattern of thinking, behavior, and culture of life for a group of people who adhere to a particular religion that differs from the rest.Diane and other cultures.

Islamic Identity Christian Identity Jewish Identity.

National identity: the national container and social contract of a group of people united by one land and geographical borders, even if their religions, cultures and ethnicities differ.

Example: Egyptian, Sudanese, Moroccan, Saudi national identity...etc.

National identity: the common features that distinguish a particular nationalism, consisting of several special and diverse national identities, various religions and ethnicities, but they are united by a system of commonalities with common language, geography and history.... etc.

Example: Arab nationalism, which includes all the countries of the Arab world.

Cultural identity: the system of knowledge accumulation that was formed in society by many different components of religion, customs, traditions, heritage, history, geography and communication with the world ... etc. There are many cultural and intellectual identities within the same society, while there are general commonalities for most components of society.

Example: Islamic culture, secular culture, socialism...etc.

Economic identity: the system of economic values, principles and laws that govern and manage economic activity in society.

Example: a closed economic identity - an open identity - a flexible economic identity - a bureaucracy.

Second, in terms of type:

Identity of tyranny and slave societies: the system of beliefs, values, ideas, concepts, and postulates that were entrenched in the conscience of a society. values ​​and concepts:

Absence of dream and goal Weakness of determination and absence of ambition Surrender to the majority (the jurisprudence of the conqueror) Sanctification of people Peaceful and negligent sense of weakness and inferiority Fear and cowardice Negativity of the guardian’s obedience to himself and his strength and tyranny Individualism and ego Prioritizing the private interest over the public Lying, hypocrisy and fraud - Consumption - Satisfaction with a minimum of life - Racism - Laziness - Inter-conflict - Lethargy and procrastination.

Identity of societies of democracy, freedom and dignity: the system of beliefs, values, ideas, concepts, and postulates that were entrenched in the conscience of a society that wrested its freedom, and imposed its popular will in choosing, monitoring and holding accountable those it chooses to rule according to the rules of correct democratic practice until it became a way of life for this society. Among the most important of these values ​​and concepts:

Having a dream, a goal and a great ambition - self-pride - freedom - transparency - self-criticism - citizenship - courage - positivity - institutionalization - prioritizing the public interest over the private - work and production - thinking and innovation - civilized coexistence.

Identity of Qatari Societies: The system of beliefs, values ​​and ideas governing modern democratic societies that seek security, prosperity and stability within their geographical borders.

The identity of international societies: the system of beliefs, values, and ideas governing modern democratic societies that seek an international civilized project outside their geographical borders by expanding and extending their influence and control over as much as possible and participating in managing the world as a major global power with an imperial international dimension.

It has become a way of life for this society, and among the most important of these values ​​and concepts are:

Universality - great ambition - pride in one's own international civilization - innovation - high determination - strength - continuous achievement - leadership - unity - rally around the international project - rivalry - civilized competition.

7/7 The value peace of society:

Each of the human societies has its own ladder of values, which expresses its real value and behavioral reality, and it has been arranged according to the natural dynamics of the societal movement, whether pre-planned and systematic data overlapped in it, or random data.

The value ladder of society means the descending order of the most important and strongest values ​​in stature, influence and interest in the souls of society:

1 of the highest esteem and admiration.

2 most important and most important.

3- The most influential in the behavior and performance of society.

4 - The most applied in the behavior of society.

5 most important in evaluating people.

6- The most eager to raise her in the hearts of her children.

7- The most caring of society.

Which expresses with real objectivity the civilized level of society and the possibilities of its civilized action, and its fate in the coming period.

These values ​​are not in a state of eternal stagnation; Where there are continuous processes of change witnessing the progress of one value and the decline of another value, and the entry of value and the exit of value…. etc., and so is the result, and at the same time an expression of social, political and economic transformations, regardless of whether they are a change for better or for worse.

The gradation in the value ladder is the basis of his philosophy, which expresses the disparity of relative importance between values ​​and their distribution on the different levels of the ladder. Apply the fifth value with the tenth value at the end of the scale; The fifth value is chosen.

The planned value ladder should not carry contradictory values ​​with each other, and when that happens, it expresses the state of randomness and chaos in which society lives.

Functional role of the value ladder of society:

1) A true indicator of the moral and behavioral reality of society.

2) It reveals the strengths and weaknesses in the value structure of society.

3) It gives researchers and decision makers the basic keys to the personality of the society, in preparation for its use in managing the social behavior.

4) It gives researchers and decision makers the determinants and caveats of the personality of the community, which must be dealt with carefully when trying to establish a communication relationship with this community.

5) It expresses the real directions of the state, and to which compass it wants society to turn towards (development and economic growth - to war - to stability and prosperity - to liberation - to external expansion...etc).

By Dictator Ibrahim El-Deeb

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