DIVERSITY, EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
Journal Title: Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century - Year 2013, Vol 7, Issue 12
Abstract
The wide range of transformations subsequent to the enlargements of the European community reverberate in all important spheres of the way of life. The individual and social psychic experience the important influence of the enlargement processes and so do the interhuman, intergroup and cross-cultural relations. To a mutual intergroup tolerance and the lacking conflicts integration of foreign citizens, of immigrants and refugees in a certain country, lead the importance of a collective European identity and the formation of commonly shared values, norms and rules. This is found to be a controversial and uneasy process. Social knowledge and social psychology in particular could help elaborate new models of relations on a supra-individual level directed toward research on collective phenomena through interdisciplinary approach. The contemporary situation of high mobility and immigration is common in a lot of European countries and often conflicts erupt between representatives of different ethnic groups especially when socially unequal people devoted to pursue their personal status and employment are involved, which contradicts to the interests of the local nationals. This provokes some reactions and actions immigrants to be excluded in the different countries, which in essence is the contradiction to the accepted common values and outlines ambivalence in the attitudes – acceptance of the effects of immigration as positive, but rejection of the representatives of foreign and ethnic groups, especially when it comes to competition.
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Yolanda Zografova
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