Towards A Social Identity For Europe? A Social Psychological Approach to European Identity Studies

Ongur, Hakan Övünç

doi:10.5539/res.v2n2p133

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“…A democratic system, the direct participation of the citizens, and complete transparency in the functioning of the EU helped it to grow and expand. There has also been an effort on the part of the European policy makers to create regional consciousness and regional identity (Ongur 2010). In the process, it also led to the Europeanization of the region, eliminated the distinction between the EU as a separate entity from its member states, or as some dominant power above them, or even inferior to them (Warleigh 2004).…”

Section: The European Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interrogating Linkages Between Borders, Regions, and Border Studies

Tripathi

2015

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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The paper is an attempt to understand the impact of regions on border studies. It has been argued that even in this era of globalization borders exist but the conceptual understandings of borders are region specific. In an integrated region, the meaning of the border is different and border studies are more interdisciplinary in their approach. Whereas in regions where regional integration is still in its nascent stage, borders are regarded as dividing lines between two states and studies related to borders commonly linked with security studies; barring the development of a multidisciplinary approach towards the subject. In this paper, examples from Europe and South Asia are taken to substantiate the main arguments.

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Section: The European Regionmentioning

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Interrogating Linkages Between Borders, Regions, and Border Studies

Tripathi

2015

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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“…Идея формирования европейской идентичности как наднациональной идентичности продолжала обсуждаться рядом авторов и в начале второго тысячелетия. Здесь мы можем упомянуть теории таких ученых как Р. Миллер [Miller, 2012] или Х. О. Онгур [Ongur, 2010], развивающих идею европейской идентичности как одной из многих социальных идентичностей, которые люди формируют на основе своей принадлежности к разным социальным группам. Они также утверждают, что различные формы идентичности (такие как европейская, национальная, региональная) не обязательно конкурируют друг с другом.…”

Section: болгарская национальная идентичность в условиях глобальностиunclassified

Migration and Identity in Contemporary Bulgarian Society

Nakova

2021

DEMIS. Demographic Research

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The article, based on the results of an empirical sociological study, examines the changes in the national identity of Bulgarian citizens under the influence of active migration processes within the EU. The started process of formation of su- pranational/European identity is substantiated. The exceptional dynamics of contemporary social processes, mass migratory movements in a world where borders are becoming more open and even practically absent (within the EU), and huge distances are covered in a very short time lead to significant changes in the identity of the Bulgarian citizens. New types of identity appear that are structurally and functionally different from the pre-existing ones, corresponding to the previous axiological paradigms. Constant process of movement from one society to another, and in particular from the new EU member states to the old member states within the “liquid migration”, leads to the transfer, assimilation and reconciliation of ideas, perceptions, understandings, values and behaviors that are typical for different societies, social groups and cultures. Bulgaria and Bulgarian citizens have been involved in these processes for three decades, with a gradually increasing intensity. Today the Bulgarian national identity is in constant transformation - the Bulgarian citizen becomes a European citizen, a citizen of the world. Thus, the specificity of social development logically leads to the formation of a supranational identity. On the other hand, when the change becomes permanent feature of society and radical changes occur over extremely short periods of time, it creates prerequisites for dissonance of identity. And sometimes, instead of the formation of a supranational identity, reverse processes of closure, localization, and regionalization are observed. It can be said that in modern Bulgarian society, the processes of European integration are accompanied by opposite processes of “atomization” of society and the “closure” of people into smaller, than national communities. The results of a national representative survey show that at this stage of development of the Bulgarian society, identification with the nation-state remains a key for Bulgarian citizens - more than half of the respondents identify themselves as citizens of Bulgaria. Almost one third of Bulgarian citizens, however, identify themselves with supranational structures (“citizen of Europe” and “citizen of the world”), which is an illustration of the processes of the formation of a supranational identity that have begun. And the identification of about one tenth of the respondents with their hometown, with the place where they were born, reflects the opposite trend of formation of local identity.

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“…The concept of Europeanization first appeared in the 1980s in political studies literature and achieved greater recognition in the 1990s, particularly in the field of European studies, although it does not have a single, clear-cut definition (Klatt, 2014;Ongur, 2010;Tabaldi & Calaresu, 2013). One of the most cited definitions of Europeanization is offered by Radaelli (2004), who says, Europeanization consists of processes of (a) construction, (b) diffusion, and (c) institutionalization of formal and informal rules, procedures, policy paradigms, styles, "ways of doing things," and shared beliefs and norms, which are first defined and consolidated in the EU policy process and then incorporated in the logic of domestic (national and subnational) discourse, political structures, and public policies.…”

Section: The Europeanization Of Educationmentioning

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Qualifications Frameworks Between Global and European Pressures and Local Responses

Mikulec¹,

Ermenc

2016

Sage Open

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The article considers the Europeanization of education, a process that is taking place in the European Union (EU) as a result of the establishment of a common education policy and that is playing a part in determining the development of education policies in EU member states and candidate countries. The concept of Europeanization serves as a methodological tool with which to analyze one of the fundamental political instruments of European education policy, namely, the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), and also the national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) that are emerging under its influence. In the case of our analysis of the NQF that has been prepared by Slovenia, we demonstrate that the formulation of the EQF and NQFs in the EU is influenced by two factors: by the Anglo-Saxon countries, which were the first to establish a qualifications framework of the modern type, and by global neoliberal policy, with its tendency toward the deregulation, marketization, and commodification of education. At the same time, we tried to show that NQFs in continental Europe have resulted, by virtue of their local specificities, in frameworks that differ considerably from qualifications in the Anglo-Saxon countries. It appears that the effects of globalization and Europeanization on education are unpredictable, because policies are never simply copied into national systems.

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Towards A Social Identity For Europe? A Social Psychological Approach to European Identity Studies

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Interrogating Linkages Between Borders, Regions, and Border Studies

Interrogating Linkages Between Borders, Regions, and Border Studies

Migration and Identity in Contemporary Bulgarian Society

Qualifications Frameworks Between Global and European Pressures and Local Responses

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