Social identity as a basis for dialogue in society

Abstract

The definition of social identity consists of two parts. First, it means protection against threats to a nation's existence and well-being. Second, it means the search for measures and possibilities to achieve the goals of social development and improvement. Social identity implies the creation and preservation of conditions in which each citizen can develop into an educated, creative, responsible personality. Today, especially for nations throughout the former Soviet Union, the chief danger to social identity lies in the adverse conditions of continued underdevelopment. It follows that nowadays identity means, first of all, the development of our nation. The essential condition for a small nation's identity and survival is based on people's resolution to rely upon themselves and the potential inherent within their own country. The modern strategy for ensuring social identity would principally rely on this principle: every citizen is part of the identity, i.e., each is an active agent contributing to the identity. For this reason, a strategic condition is to create equal starting possibilities, i.e., equality of opportunities for everyone.