La activación de identidades. La redefinición de endogrupos y exogrupos

Abstract

This article reviews the concepts of alterity and social identity, based on the consideration that people belong to different social groups and national places that build “us” versus “others.” These identities do not remain unchanged, but are activated and deactivated, which produces a constant redefinition of the ingroups and outgroups, as well as the relationships between them. The social construction of reality leads to think that identity is reconfigured establishing contacts with other groups. We present, so, questions that pose the ascription to the own autonomic or national group, while emerging complex processes of incorporation into broader collective and supranational entities (such as Europe), in which what is considered as alien fades and becomes part of a group of higher level with new objectives.

DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/t.20.2.2535