Collective psychological involvement as a strategy of bureaucracy in interaction with civil society in the formation of national identity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31558/2519-2949.2024.3.3Keywords:
politics, psychological ownership, national identity, civic identity, motives of politics, conflict resolution methods, transnational threats, collective sense of belonging, propaganda, international conflict, violence, democracyAbstract
In our opinion, systematic attention to issues of collective psychological involvement is important and promising. It can contribute to political, socio-psychological thinking and research, and can enhance the field’s contribution to the understanding of intergroup political tensions and conflicts in different contexts and settings around the world. This is done in interdisciplinary studies, more often in social and political psychology. The psychological and philosophical essence of the phenomenon of human identity is analyzed. The importance of identity as a personal formation that allows a person to form himself in all the wealth of relations with the surrounding world and to determine a system of values, ideals, life plans and landmarks is determined. The purpose of the article is the study of collective psychological ownership as a strategy of the bureaucracy in interaction with civil society in the formation of national identity. It is substantiated that there is a connection between collective psychological involvement and the level of civic identity formation, since the feeling of collective psychological involvement can contribute to international tension and strengthening of foreign policy orientations. This is relevant in those countries in which citizens feel threatened by the territory, demonstrate the level of actualization of collective ownership of the country, protect national identity, language, and traditions. National and civil identities determine the recognition of one’s belonging to a political nation, state. It has been proven that the phenomenon of collective psychological involvement determines the attitude towards one’s own country as a factor of intragroup cohesion, unity, strengthening in inter-ethnic confrontation, a sense of security regarding the integrity of the country is formed through the formed civic identity, which is formed more slowly than the national one. It was found that the analysis of the level of collective psychological involvement should be carried out within the territorial community, country, supranational political association. Political leaders can use the theory to their advantage through narratives, symbols, political language as tools of manipulation.
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